This article is about the Oaxaca Mixe languages, which their speakers call Ayöök, Ayuujk, Ayüük or Ayuhk.

There is a palatalized series of all consonant phonemes (as in Russian, Polish or Irish) and possibly a fortis/lenis distinction in the plosive series, the recognition of which however is obscured by a tendency towards allophonic voicing of consonants in voiced environments.

[citation needed] The Mixe verb is complex and inflects for many categories and also shows a lot of derivational morphology.

[4] Mixe languages have SOV constituent order, prepositions and genitives precede the noun.

[citation needed] This sample is from Lowland Mixe:[5] pwes[pwesWellhadu'nhaduʔnthereidaaʔidaːthisyɨyoopʲ-ʔɨjoːb3P-poorjɨyäjhɨjaʔajpersonidaaʔidaːthisaldeanoʔaldeanoranch handmɨɨtmɨːdwithytöxyijkʲ-toʔoʃʲɨʰk3P.POSS-womanytɨkoyʲtɨɡoˑjʲ3P-CAUS/PAS-lose-DEPyɨjɨthemɨkümɨkuʔu]devilpwes hadu'n idaa yɨyoop jɨyäj idaa aldeano mɨɨt ytöxyijk ytɨkoy yɨ mɨkü[pwes haduʔn ʔidaː ʲ-ʔɨjoːb hɨjaʔaj ʔidaː ʔaldeano mɨːd ʲ-toʔoʃʲɨʰk ʲtɨɡoˑjʲ jɨ mɨkuʔu]Well there this 3P-poor person this {ranch hand} with 3P.POSS-woman 3P-CAUS/PAS-lose-DEP the devil"Well that's how this poor person, this ranch hand with his wife, made the devil lose"Mixe-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEGLO, based in Guelatao de Juárez, Oaxaca.