Oluta Popoluca
| Oluta Popoluca | |
|---|---|
| Olutec | |
| Yaak'awü | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Vera Cruz |
| Ethnicity | 10,000 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 1 (2018)[2] |
Mixe–Zoque
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | plo |
| Glottolog | olut1240 |
| ELP | Oluta Popoluca |
Oluta Popoluca also called Olutec is a moribund Mixe–Zoquean language of the Mixean branch spoken by a few elderly people in the town of Oluta in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.
77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,[3] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.[2]
Phonology[]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | x | h | |
| Rhotic | trill | r | ||||
| tap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Glide | w | j | ||||
Vowels are /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, /ʉ/.[4]
Notes[]
- ^ Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- ^ Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
- ^ Diccionario Popoluca de Oluta: Popoluca - Español, Español - Popoluca; El sistema de sonidos del popoluca de Oluta. 1981.
Bibliography[]
- Zavala Maldonado, Roberto. 2003. Obviación en Oluteco. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America–I (23–25 October 2003, University of Texas at Austin).
Categories:
- Indigenous languages of Mexico
- Mesoamerican languages
- Mixe–Zoque languages
- Endangered Mixe–Zoque languages
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs