The Mixe-Zoque languages constitute a
language family whose living members are spoken in and around the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
Mexico. The Mexican government recognizes three distinct Mixe-Zoquean languages as official:
Mixe or ayook with 188,000 speakers,
Zoque or o'de püt with 88,000 speakers, and the
Popoluca languages of which some are Mixean and some Zoquean with 69,000 speakers. However the internal diversity in each of these groups is great and the Ethnologue counts 16 different languages, and the current classification of Mixe-Zoquean languages by
Wichmann (1995) counts 12 languages and 11 dialects.
Extinct languages classified as Mixe-Zoquean include Tapachultec, formerly spoken along the southeast coast of
Chiapas.
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