Olutec

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Olutec is an indigenous Mixe–Zoquean language of southern Veracruz, Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Oluta Popoluca people and now critically endangered.

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Label Occurrences
Olutec canonical 2

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mixe–Zoquean language
critically endangered language
indigenous language
alternateName Oluta Popoluca NERFINISHED
Olutla Popoluca NERFINISHED
country Mexico
documentedBy linguistic fieldwork in Veracruz
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Oluta Popoluca people NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyFeature derivational morphology for valency change
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive glottalization
nasal consonants
hasSpeakers very few remaining speakers
hasTypology agglutinative morphology
hasWordOrder verb–object–subject (VOS)
verb–subject–object (VSO)
ISO639-3 plo NERFINISHED
isPartOf Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED
languageBranch Zoquean NERFINISHED
languageFamily Mixe–Zoquean NERFINISHED
languageOf Oluta Popoluca culture NERFINISHED
region southern Veracruz NERFINISHED
riskStatus possible language extinction in near future
spokenIn Isthmus region of Veracruz NERFINISHED
Oluta, Veracruz NERFINISHED
status critically endangered
subclassOf Popoluca language NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication (historically)
ritual speech
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

plo (Oluta Popoluca) hasAlternativeName Olutec
subject surface form: Oluta Popoluca