This family of languages includes two subfamilies, the Mixean subfamily (which includes the Mixe languages of Oaxaca and also Sayula Popoluca and Oluta Popoluca in the state of Veracruz) and the Zoquean subfamily (which includes the Zoque languages of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Tabasco, and Sierra Popoluca and Texistepec Popoluca in Veracruz).

Name	Ethnologue entries
Coatlán Mixe	mco
Isthmus Mixe	mir
Mazatlán Mixe	mzl
North Central Mixe	neq
Quetzaltepec Mixe	pxm
Tlahuitoltepec Mixe	mxp
Totontepec Mixe	mto
Highland Popoluca	poi
Oluta Popoluca	plo
Sayula Popoluca	pos
Texistepec Popoluca	poq
Chimalapa Zoque	zoh
Copainalá Zoque	zoc
Francisco León Zoque	zos
Rayón Zoque	zor
Tabasco Zoque	zoq

• dictionaries, vocabularies, including:
  • Vocabulario mixe de Totontepec
  • Diccionario popoluca de Oluta
  • Vocabulario popoluca de Sayula
  • Diccionario zoque de Copainalá
  • Vocabulario zoque de Rayón
• grammars
• technical articles, including:
  • A Comparison of Person Markers in Sayula and Oluta Popoluca, published in the SIL Electronic Working Papers
  • Estructura de la clausula en mixe de Coatlan (SIL-Mexico workpaper in scanned PDF format)
  • Survey of morphology and syntax for Zoque of Copainala (SIL-Mexico workpaper in scanned PDF format)
• analyzed texts
• master thesis
• doctoral dissertations
• contributions to the Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México

• books of traditional stories, including:
  • Tacuyujtampa (Reading and Writing in Sierra Popoluca)
  • Hablemos popoluca y español (Let's Speak Popoluca and Spanish, in Sierra Popoluca)
• primers
• New Testaments
• Old Testament summaries

• Confusion about the names “Mixe” and “Mixtec”
• Confusion about the names “Popoloca” and “Popoluca”
• Ethnologue listing