Northern Popoloca language
Northern Popoloca is an indigenous language of Puebla state, Mexico. The dialects of the two towns where it is spoken, San Luís Temalacayuca (a.k.a. Temalacayuca, San Luís) and San Marcos Tlacoyalco (a.k.a. Tlacoyalco, San Marcos), are over 90% mutually intelligible.
| Northern Popoloca | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Puebla |
Native speakers | (13,000 cited 1994–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:pps – San Luís Temalacayucapls – San Marcos Tlacoyalco |
| Glottolog | sanl1248 San Luis Temalacayuca[2]sanm1301 San Marcos Tlalcoyalco[3] |
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palato- Alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t̪ | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ʂ | |||||
| Fricative | β | ð | s | ʃ | ʂ | ɣ | h | |
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||
| Approximant | l | j |
gollark: Communal thinking works for small close-knit communities. But that obviously does not scale.
gollark: And as an individual... you need to randomly give companies stuff and hope they'll send you back food?
gollark: The gifts thing sounds bad - just to be able to interact with an industry, you need to give companies free stuff and just hope they'll randomly give you stuff if you ask for it?
gollark: Also non-self-sufficient stuff.
gollark: But it doesn't scale to bigger stuff, and we need it to scale to bigger stuff.
References
- San Luís Temalacayuca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
San Marcos Tlacoyalco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "San Luis Temalacayuca Popoloca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "San Marcos Tlalcoyalco Popoloca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Stark C., Sara (2014). Los pronombres en ngigua. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working Papers, 12a.: SIL International.CS1 maint: location (link)
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