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The Ayutla Mixe language is a South Highland Mixe language that belongs to the Mixe-Zoque family and in the Mixe language, Ayutla is pronounced as  Tukyo’m Ayuujk. The Mixe-Zoque family is broken into two branches, where Ayutla Mixe belongs into the Mixe branch. The Mixe branch may be divided into a sub-branch known as Oaxaca Mixe, this branch includes all the Mixe languages that are spoken in the state of Oaxaca. There are four different Mixe languages in this subgroup where Ayutla Mixe belongs to the South Highland Mixe language, the other three Oaxaca Mixe languages include Lowland Mixe, Midland Mixe and North Highland Mixe. Although Ayutla Mixe is one of the languages of South Highland Mixe languages, there are  five more languages  that include  Tlahuitoltepec and  Tamazulapam.

Geography
Ayutla Mixe is spoken in San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla, a Mixe county that is located in the southern state of Oaxaca in Mexico. The geographic location of Ayutla is at the southern part of  Sierra Mixe, located by the mountains which is part of Sierra Norte De Oaxaca. From all the 19 counties that creates the Mixe area, Ayutla is the one at the edge. The county of Ayutla is neighbor of a few Zapotec counties such as Santo Domingo Albarradas and  San Pablo Villa de Mitla.

About the Language and Current Events
According to the census conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, there has been a decline in people who are monolingual speakers in Ayutla  since the 1960’s. From a population of 103,99 of Mixe speakers in Oaxaca, only 3,617 people spoke Ayutla Mixe in 2005 and only 900 are monolingual. Many people who are bilingual in Ayutla do not speak it as well since they speak Spanish more often. Reasons for the decline of monolinguals in Ayutla Mixe has to do with migration, speaking it only with family members and schools focusing on teaching children Spanish only. In the Mixe culture there are not a lot of people who wear traditional clothing, except for women on special occasions. According to the 1940 census, there has been a decline in the use of traditional clothing since then. Ayutla practices all catholic traditions  and two important ones that are celebrated in Ayutla are the patronal festivities. One of the festivities is dedicated to Saint Paul, which involves his  conversion.

A current issue happening to the  Ayutla Mixe community  is that the governor Alejandro Murat of Oaxaca, is not complying to an order that was established by a Judge. The governor was ordered to respect the rights of the San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla community by reconnecting the water system which will allow them to have access to water. A notable person who belongs to the Ayutla Mixe community is Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, who is a writer and Ayuujk linguist. She wrote an article known as The Map and the Territory where she briefly talks about the experiences of the Ayutla Mixe people who migrate to the United States. In this article she talks about how  people from the Ayutla Mixe community who migrate to the United States talk about how the spirit of their community is being recreated in foreign land.