Metzontla Popoloca

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Metzontla Popoloca is a variety of the Popoloca language, an Oto-Manguean indigenous language spoken in central Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Oto-Manguean language
Popoloca language variety
language variety
belongsTo Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED
country Mexico
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Popoloca people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Eastern Popoloca of Metzontla NERFINISHED
Metzontla Popoloca language NERFINISHED
San Juan Metzontla Popoloca NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Oto-Manguean NERFINISHED
Proto-Popolocan NERFINISHED
hasDomain cultural practices of Popoloca people
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish
hasPhonologicalFeature complex vowel system
tone contrasts
hasSpeakerStatus minority language
threatened language
hasSyntacticFeature basic word order VSO or VSO/VOS variation
isIndigenousLanguageOf Mexico NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code pbe
isRegulatedBy local community practices rather than formal academy
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars of Popolocan languages
phonological studies of Oto-Manguean languages
languageBranch Popolocan
languageFamily Oto-Manguean
linguisticTypology Mesoamerican language
tonal language
partOf Oto-Manguean language family NERFINISHED
Popolocan branch NERFINISHED
region Sierra Negra region of Puebla NERFINISHED
spokenIn Puebla NERFINISHED
San Juan Metzontla NERFINISHED
central Mexico NERFINISHED
subclassOf Oto-Manguean language family NERFINISHED
Popoloca language NERFINISHED
usedBy indigenous community of San Juan Metzontla
usedIn everyday communication within the community
ritual speech
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Popoloca (Oto-Manguean languages) hasVariety Metzontla Popoloca