Mixteco

American  

[mees-tek-oh] / misˈtɛk oʊ /

noun

Mixtecos, plural Mixteco plural

1. Mixtec.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Mixteco
  plural
• Mixtecos
  plural

Example Sentences

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Mixteco Mixtecos

The Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project fosters “community with 60 to 100 Indigenous youth from the Mixteco, Zapotec, and many other Diasporic communities throughout the Central Coast.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

She dreams of becoming a nurse and using her Spanish and Mixteco language skills to help her community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

But many also speak Indigenous languages including Triqui, Mixteco and Zapotec.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

They cite the interpreters at the fairgrounds, as well as televised news conferences in which Monterey County officials provided emergency response information in English, Spanish and Mixteco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Inside an evacuation center at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Maria Adolfo-Morales and a disaster service volunteer listened to a woman describe her concerns in the Mixteco language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

But most, like Jose, were born in the U.S. and work alongside their immigrant parents — many of whom are Mixtecos, Indigenous people who emigrated primarily from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Michoacán and Guerrero.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

He started working in the fields when he was 13 years old to help his parents, Indigenous Mixtecos who came to the U.S. from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Oaxaca has more than a dozen ethnicities including Mixtecos and Zapotecs.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022