Tlahuitoltepec Mixe

[2] According to Romero Mendez, there are only a small number of people who still wear traditional clothing which consists mostly of women.

In his paper, Romero Mendez states " All the Catholic celebrations are observed in Ayutla, including Easter, the Day of the Dead, and Christmas".

[2] A current issue happening in the Ayutla community is their fight for proper access to water.

[3] In Agua Para Ayutla Ya, Ordena Juez, Pedro Matias states that the governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, has not restored the water pipeline that would provide access to water despite being ordered to do so by a federal judge.

[2] /puh/[puh]/puh/[puh]‘wash it’/tuh/[tuh]/tuh/[tuh]‘basket’/pɤːp/[pɤːp̬]/pɤːp/[pɤːp̬]‘white’/pɤːt/[pɤːt̬]/pɤːt/[pɤːt̬]‘cut!’/pʌʌk/[pʌʌk]/pʌʌk/[pʌʌk]‘sweet’/kʌʌk/[kʌʌk]/kʌʌk/[kʌʌk]‘mamey’ (Pouteria sapota)/kʌp/[kʌpʰ]/kʌp/[kʌpʰ]‘brother-in-law’/kʌk/[kʌkʰ]/kʌk/[kʌkʰ]‘basket’/pʌːʦ/[pʌːʦ̬]/pʌːʦ/[pʌːʦ̬]‘skunk’/ʔʌːʦ/[ʔʌːʦ̬]/ʔʌːʦ/[ʔʌːʦ̬]‘root’/pʌk/[pʌkʰ]/pʌk/[pʌkʰ]‘pigeon’/ʔʌk/[ʔʌkʰ]/ʔʌk/[ʔʌkʰ]‘skin’Below are some examples of vowels and their sounds.

/kaj/[kaj]/kaj/[kaj]‘eat’/kej/[kej]/kej/[kej]‘rabbit’/tamp/[tampʰ]/tamp/[tampʰ]‘he pours’/temp/[tempʰ]/temp/[tempʰ]‘it rolls’/taː/[taː]/taː/[taː]‘then’/tiː/[tiː]/tiː/[tiː]‘what’/tkaʂn/[θkaʂnʰ]/tkaʂn/[θkaʂnʰ]‘he had told’/tkɤʂn/[θkɤʂnʰ]/tkɤʂn/[θkɤʂnʰ]‘he had punched’/tkaht/[θkahtʰ]/tkaht/[θkahtʰ]‘he untied it’/tkɤht/[θkɤhtʰ]/tkɤht/[θkɤhtʰ]‘he did it (irrealis)’/tkaht/[θkahtʰ]/tkaht/[θkahtʰ]‘he untied (irrealis)’/tkuht/[θkuhtʰ]/tkuht/[θkuhtʰ]‘he threw it away (irrealis)’/tkamn/[θkamn̥]/tkamn/[θkamn̥]‘he has fenced it’/tkumn/[θkumn̥]/tkumn/[θkumn̥]‘he has stabbed him’/maʦ/[maʦ]/maʦ/[maʦ]‘come!’/mʌʦ/[mʌʦ]/mʌʦ/[mʌʦ]‘grab it!’/tan/[tan]/tan/[tan]‘stand!’/tʌn/[tʌn]/tʌn/[tʌn]‘late’ In the plural nominal morphology a noun doesn't need to take plural form and if it does there needs to be a human to which a phrase refers.

[2] Romero - Mendez lists the following examples:[2] There are no articles in Ayutla language to define definiteness.

[2] Romero - Mendez lists the adjective between the noun and demonstrative below:[2] tu’ukonemëj-näx+ybig+INTENSkipysticky-käp-n3S-be.stick-PERF;DEPtu’uk mëj-näx+y kipy y-käp-none big+INTENS stick 3S-be.stick-PERF;DEP‘There was a big stick.’In Rodrigo Romero - Mendez dissertation paper, A Reference Grammar of Ayutla Mixe (Tukyo’m Ayuujk), states, "The NP jä’äy ‘person’ in (42) can be interpreted as having a singular or plural referent.".

[2] The author, Romero - Mendez, gives an example of a possession in a noun phrase below:[2] Prefix that shows possession: yë’ë[2] yë’ëDEM.Mjä’äypersony-tixytyëjk3POSS-womanyë’ë jä’äy y-tixytyëjkDEM.M person 3POSS-woman‘That person’s wife.’ (IreL-64)The author, Romero - Mendez, gives an example of a head noun only possession below:[2] JëtsandjajpDEIC.DijtyIMPFm-teexy2POSS-dishm-täs-u'nk2POSS-cup-DIMxmëët-ät-t=a2A-ASSOC-VRBLZ-PL;DEP=QJëts jajp ijty m-teexy m-täs-u'nk xmëët-ät-t=aand DEIC.D IMPF 2POSS-dish 2POSS-cup-DIM 2A-ASSOC-VRBLZ-PL;DEP=QWhen the inflectional morphology is removed, one is left with the verb stem.

Indeed, in spite of the fact that it is troublesome to draw generalizations as to which of the two conceivable outcomes in case more fundamental – and in reality it appears best fair to state that Ayutla Mixe has both sorts of characteristics, it is worth displaying the foremost critical of those characteristics as they give valuable data approximately requesting of elements in common within the dialect.

Ayutla Mixe does not display a clear inclination of requesting components for the autonomous stamping.

It appeared within the past segment that Mixe does not have a preferred word arranged within the free checked clauses.

Temporal adverbs are utilized to demonstrate or arrange the requesting of occasions with regard to the subject time.

In unbiased autonomous angle, the non-verbal predicate shows up in juxtaposition with the subject, without any obvious copula.