Mixco, Mauricio J.
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Mixco, Mauricio J.
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Mauricio J. Mixco is a linguist and professor emeritus of anthropological linguistics at the University of Utah. His career has focused on endangered Indigenous languages in the U.S. and Mexico, including the Kiliwa, Mandan, and Shoshone languages. Mixco was born in El Salvador and moved to California as a child.
Mixco received a BA in linguistics in 1965, and a PhD in linguistics in 1971, from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Mary R. Haas titled "Kiliwa Grammar." He began working with speakers of Kiliwa in Baja California in 1966, with financial support from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.
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Anthropological linguistics
Kiliwa language
Mandan language
Shoshoni language
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Salvadorans
Americans
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Fort Berthold Reservation
ND, US
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conducted field research on Mandan language, 1993
Utah
UT, US
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Baja California
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conducted field research on Kiliwa language
Republic of El Salvador
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