Oluta Popoluca

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.

Oluta Popoluca
Olutec
Yaak'awü
Native toMexico
RegionVera Cruz
Ethnicity10,000 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers
1 (2011)[2]
Mixe–Zoque
Language codes
ISO 639-3plo
Glottologolut1240[3]

Phonology

Bilabial Alveolar Alveolo-Palatal Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosives b, p d, t ɟ, c ts ɡ, k ʔ
Fricatives f s ʃ x h
Nasals m n ɲ ŋ
Rhotics ɾ, r
Lateral l
Approximants w j

Vowels are /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, /ʉ/.[4]

Notes

  1. Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. "Popoluca, Oluta". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oluta Popoluca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Diccionario Popoluca de Oluta: Popoluca - Español, Español - Popoluca; El sistema de sonidos del popoluca de Oluta. 1981.

Bibliography

  • 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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