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mazateco

Family Oto-mangue

Speakers aged 3 and over
237,212

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade
High

INALI 2012, on 2000 census figures. The highest-risk variant is shown.

Variants by grade
  • Very high 0
  • High 1
  • Medium 1
  • No immediate risk 14
Status in Glottolog
Shifting

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 9 members with AES (9 in group): not endangered=1;threatened=7;shifting=1

Digital resources

One indicator per source, measured in the snapshot of Oct 5, 2026. They are never blended into a single score.

This means the technical building blocks for language tools — translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers — not cultural content like books or music. What we count and where it comes from

Datasets
Hugging Face
1

datasets focused on the language

32 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Models
Hugging Face
1

models focused on the language

101 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Speech corpus
Common Voice
1

varieties with a speech corpus

Source
common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail
1 of 9 codes covered: mau scripted 27.0: 10.42h validated
Treebanks
Universal Dependencies
0

released treebanks

Source
universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail
no treebank for any of 9 codes
Speech recognition
Omnilingual ASR
8

varieties supported

Source
omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail
8 of 9 codes supported: maa_Latn, maj_Latn, maq_Latn, mau_Latn, mzi_Latn, vmp_Latn, vmy_Latn, vmz_Latn

Identity

Glottocode
maza1295
ISO 639-3
maa, maj, maq, mau, mzi, pbm, vmp, vmy, vmz
Match to Glottolog
Several Glottolog languages in one group
Glottolog languages in this group
  • vmy Ayautla Mazatec ayau1235
  • maq Chiquihuitlán Mazatec chiq1250
  • mau Huautla Mazatec huau1238
  • mzi Ixcatlán Mazatec ixca1246
  • maj Jalapa De Díaz Mazatec jala1237
  • vmz Mazatlán Mazatec maza1296
  • pbm Puebla and Northeastern Mazatec pueb1234
  • maa San Jerónimo Tecóatl Mazatec sanj1286
  • vmp Soyaltepec Mazatec soya1237

Variants 16

From INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with each variant's risk grade (INALI, 2012).

VariantAutonymRisk
mazateco de Acatepecen naxi llanazoNo immediate risk
mazateco de Eloxochitlánen ngixoNo immediate risk
mazateco de Huehuetlánan ndexuNo immediate risk
mazateco de la presa altoenna (de la presa alto)No immediate risk
mazateco de la presa bajoen ningotsieNo immediate risk
mazateco de Ocopetatilloen ndajaMedium
mazateco de PueblaAn xo’booNo immediate risk
mazateco de Tecóatlenna (de Tecóatl)No immediate risk
mazateco del centroenna (del centro)No immediate risk
mazateco del este bajontaxjoNo immediate risk
mazateco del noresteen naxijenNo immediate risk
mazateco del norteen naxo tota · en nda xoNo immediate risk
mazateco del oesteenna (del oeste)No immediate risk
mazateco del surnne nangui ngaxniHigh
mazateco del suresteenre naxinanda nguifiNo immediate risk
mazateco del suroesteienra naxinandana nnandiaNo immediate risk