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Mixtec|ˈmiːʃtɛk|
Also Mixteca, Mixteco.
[Sp., f. native name.]
A people of central America; a member of this people; also, their language. Also attrib. So Mixˈtecan.
1850R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 409 South of Mexico we have several languages of a small..area... Mixteca, spoken in Oaxaca [etc.]. 1928D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away 267 His mother was a Mixtec Indian woman. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 288 In the waste land..stood a church..and, beside it, the Mixtec ruins which it had been built to exorcise and sanctify. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet i. vii. 123 The Zapotecs and Mixtecs..in ancient times probably played the part of cultural intermediaries between the Maya Old Empire of the East, and the Toltec ‘Empire’ of the West. 1952E. Fischer-Jørgensen in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 307 An exception of a different kind is formed by languages of the Mixteco-type. In Mixteco the minimal utterance is cvcv or cvv, containing two syllabic bases. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Ling. Spring 152 We made the first attempt with the sixteenth century Mixtec dictionary. Ibid. 153 We began on the Mixtec, first listing all the affix elements we knew. 1968Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 377 In languages such as Mixtecan or Chinese, each vowel in the word may have its own distinctive prosodic features. 1972Language XLVIII. 847 Otomi nasal vowels, Mixteco,..and Zoque. 1975Times 24 May 10/1, I went to Mexico with only the most cursory knowledge of..the Toltecs, the Olmecs, the Mixtecs, the Zapotecs. Ibid. 10/5 Friezes made up of exquisitely curved geometric patterns..were Mixtec work. |