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 toMexico
RegionPuebla
Native speakers
(13,000 cited 1994–2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
pps – San Luís Temalacayuca
pls – San Marcos Tlacoyalco
Glottologsanl1248  San Luis Temalacayuca[2]
sanm1301  San Marcos Tlalcoyalco[3]

Phonology

Vowels
FrontCentral Back
Close i u~o
Mid ɛ
Open a

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

[4]

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References
  1. San Luís Temalacayuca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    San Marcos Tlacoyalco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Stark C., Sara (2014). Los pronombres en ngigua. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working Papers, 12a.: SIL International.CS1 maint: location (link)


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