1
plural Mixtec or Mixtecs
: a member of an Indigenous people of western Oaxaca and parts of adjacent states in southern Mexico
2
: the group of Otomanguean languages spoken by the Mixtec
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Solano previously cooked at the late and admired Mixtec and Enriqueta’s in Washington.
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
Kaufman points to Mixtec, a group of Indigenous languages spoken in south-central Mexico, with 500,000 speakers.
—New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
Kaufman points to Mixtec, a group of Indigenous languages spoken in south-central Mexico, with 500,000 speakers.
—New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Mixtec.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mixtec. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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