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Ixcatec or Xwja is a language spoken by the people of the Mexican village of Santa María Ixcatlan in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca. The Ixcatec language belongs to the Popolocan branch of the Oto-manguean language family.The number of speakers was given to be 119 in the early 1980s but according to the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes there were only 8 speakers of the language in 2008.