Nda Xo

Highlands Mazatec – Huatla Mazatec

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Political Division

Mazatec Languages

- Huautla Mazatec -AyautlaMazatec -Mazatlán Mazatec -Eloxochitlán Mazatec -Ixcatlán Mazatec - Jalapa Mazatec - Chiquihuitlán Mzatc -Soyaltepec Mazatec

Huatla de Jimenez

Huautla Mazatec

Identifier: mau Code set: 639-3

Individual language

Type: Living (people still living who learned it as a first language)

Status: Vulnerable Speakers:

82 000 total 33 859 monolingual

(2000 census)

Writing system: latin script

Cultural Background

NAME Huatla

Official Nahuatl name: Huatla (Place of Eagles) Local Mazatec name: Tejao (Eagle´s Nest)

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

Agriculture (Coffee, corn, sugar, some fruits)

Ranching (pigs, horses, mules)

Retail shops

Tourism - EthnoTourism

Huatla de Jimenez

Huatla de Jimenez Important elders

contributing to revitalization Maria Sabina