pos (Sayula Popoluca)

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Sayula Popoluca (ISO 639-3: pos) is an indigenous Mixe–Zoquean language spoken by a small community in Veracruz, Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mixe–Zoquean language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Popoluca
surface form: Popoluca de Sayula

Sayula Popoluca
surface form: Sayula Zoque

Sayultec
belongsTo indigenous languages of Mexico
languages of Veracruz
classificationStatus well-established as Mixe–Zoquean
continent North America
country Mexico
ethnicity Sayula Popoluca people
hasAlignment ergative–absolutive tendencies
hasCommunitySize small number of speakers
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars and linguistic studies
hasGlottocode sayu1242
hasLexicon documented wordlists and dictionaries
hasMorphology rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalization
tone or pitch-based distinctions (reported)
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish among speakers
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasUsageDomain home and community domains more than formal education
hasWordOrder verb–initial tendency
isNot Mayan languages
surface form: Mayan language

Spanish
ISO 639-3 code pos
isPartOf Mesoamerican linguistic area
languageBranch Zoquean
languageEndangermentCause shift to Spanish
languageFamily Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Mixe–Zoquean
languageFamilyMacro Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Mixe–Zoque
languageStatus minority language in Mexico
name Sayula Popoluca
neighboringLanguages Spanish
other Mixe–Zoquean languages
region Veracruz
spokenBy small community of speakers
spokenIn Veracruz
surface form: Veracruz, Mexico
status endangered language
subjectTo language revitalization efforts (limited)
usedIn local community communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Popoluca hasISO6393Code pos (Sayula Popoluca)