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Jalapa Mazatec is a Mazatecan language as of 1990 spoken by ca. 15000 people one-third of whom are monolingual in 13 villages in the vicinity of the town of San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz in the Tuxtepec District of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Egland (1978) found 73% intelligibility with Huautla the prestige variety of Mazatec. Literacy in Jalapa is taught alongside Spanish in local schools.