Language Name
The name "Mixtec" is a Nahuatl exonym, from 'cloud' 'inhabitant of place of'. Speakers of Mixtec use an expression (which varies by dialect) to refer to their own language, and generally this expression means "word of the rain": Tu'un Sávi in one variety, for example, and Dà'àn Dávi in another.
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