Popoluca

E80060

Popoluca refers to several closely related indigenous languages of the Mixe–Zoquean family spoken by native communities in southern Veracruz, Mexico.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Popoluca people 12
Popoluca canonical 7
Texistepec Popoluca 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mixe–Zoquean language
indigenous language
language group
areaOfStudy historical linguistics of Mesoamerica
language contact in Veracruz
country Mexico
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnolinguisticGroup Popoluca self-linksurface differs
surface form: Popoluca people
geographicDistribution Oluta municipality
Sayula de Alemán municipality
Sierra de Soteapan
Municipality of Orizaba
surface form: Texistepec municipality
hasAlternativeName Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Popoluca (Mixe–Zoquean)

Popoluca languages
hasISO6393Code plo (Oluta Popoluca)
poi (Highland Popoluca / Sierra Popoluca)
poq (Texistepec Popoluca)
pos (Sayula Popoluca)
hasLinguisticAncestor Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Proto-Mixe–Zoquean
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
tone (in some varieties)
hasVariety Oluta Popoluca
Sayula Popoluca
Sierra Popoluca
Popoluca self-linksurface differs
surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
influencedBy Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
languageFamily Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Mixe–Zoquean
languageStatus national indigenous language of Mexico
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
morphology polysynthetic language
notToBeConfusedWith Popoloca (Oto-Manguean languages)
recognizedBy Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas
region Isthmus of Tehuantepec
surface form: Isthmus of Tehuantepec area
spokenIn Mexico
southern Veracruz
Veracruz
surface form: state of Veracruz
subfamily Mixe languages
Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Zoquean languages
subjectOf Mesoamerican linguistic research
usedBy indigenous communities of Veracruz
usedIn local community governance
ritual practices
traditional oral literature
wordOrder verb–subject–object
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (29)

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

Veracruz hasIndigenousPeople Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
eastern Mexico hasIndigenousGroup Popoluca
subject surface form: Eastern Mexico
this entity surface form: Zoque peoples
Sotavento hasEthnicInfluence Popoluca
Popoluca hasVariety Popoluca self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
Popoluca ethnolinguisticGroup Popoluca self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Popoluca
this entity surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
Mixe–Zoquean languages hasLanguage Popoluca
this entity surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
Zoque people relatedGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca peoples
Sayula de Alemán municipality hasIndigenousPopulation Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sayula de Alemán municipality hasEthnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sayula Popoluca ethnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sayula Popoluca hasAlternativeName Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca de Sayula
Sayula Popoluca hasNeighboringLanguages Popoluca
this entity surface form: Soteapanec Popoluca
Oluta Popoluca spokenBy Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Oluta Popoluca ethnicity Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Oluta municipality hasIndigenousPopulation Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Oluta municipality isTraditionalHomelandOf Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
plo (Oluta Popoluca) isSpokenBy Popoluca
subject surface form: Oluta Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
plo (Oluta Popoluca) hasNeighboringLanguage Popoluca
subject surface form: Oluta Popoluca
this entity surface form: Soteapanec Popoluca
pos (Sayula Popoluca) alternateName Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca de Sayula
Popoluca languages areSpokenBy Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca peoples
Sierra Popoluca ethnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sierra de Soteapan ethnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people