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Mixe-Zoque languages map

18 Mixe-Zoque languages are on the map, most of them in Mexico. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Mixe (10 languages). The best-known members include Highland Popoluca, Totontepec Mixe and Tabasco Zoque. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Mixe-Zoque family at a glance

  • 18languages
  • 5drawn as areas
  • 13shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Mixe-Zoque alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Mixe-Zoque languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Highland Popoluca spoken? (about 36,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Totontepec Mixe spoken? (about 5,500 speakers)
  3. Where is Tabasco Zoque spoken? (about 4 speakers)

Branches of Mixe-Zoque

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Mixe (10)
  • Zoque (8)

Where Mixe-Zoque languages are spoken

Countries with the most Mixe-Zoque languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 18 Mixe-Zoque languages, A to Z

Questions about Mixe-Zoque languages

How many Mixe-Zoque languages are there?

18 living Mixe-Zoque languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Mixe (10 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Mixe-Zoque languages spoken?

Mexico (18) and Guatemala (1) have the most Mixe-Zoque languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Mixe-Zoque languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Highland Popoluca (about 36,000), Totontepec Mixe (about 5,500) and Tabasco Zoque (about 4). These figures differ between sources and years.

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