The Mazateco language is the native language of the Mazatec peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico. The language is a member of the Popoloca-Mazateco family, which also includes Ixcateca and Chuchon. The language can be whistled as well as spoken. Image:Wassonsalviaphoto1. ...
SIL code: MAA. ISO code: CAI.
Further Reading
Mazateco Whistle Speech by George M. Cowan, Language, Vol. 24, No. 3. (Jul. - Sep., 1948), pp. 280-286.
However, the views of particular groups of Mazatecos were shaped not so much by linguistic criteria, but by how they conceptualized the relationship between regional and national culture, as well as their particular willingness to allow the ethnolinguists to speak and act on their behalf.
Corn, coffee, and envy: An ethnographic narrative of a Mazateco village.
The Mazateco language is often divided into two broad dialect groups: highland speakers occupy the Sierra Mazateca mountain range in the district of Teotitlán de Flores Magón, while the approximately 17,000 speakers of lowland Mazateco reside in the area surrounding the Miguel Alemán Dam in the district of Tuxtepec, along the Oaxaca-Veracruz border.
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