Oluta_Popoluca

Oluta Popoluca

Oluta Popoluca

Mixe–Zoquean language of Mexico

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.

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77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,[2] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.[1]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...

Other sounds such as /b, d, ɡ, f/ occur from borrowed words from Spanish.

Vowels

Vowels are /i/, /ɨ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /a/; each distinguished with vowel length.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.

Bibliography

  • Zavala, Roberto. 2000. Inversion and other Topics in the Grammar of Olutec (Mixean). Eugene: University of Oregon.
  • 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).


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