Western Popoloca language

Western Popoloca is an indigenous language of Puebla state, Mexico. There are two principal varieties, sometimes counted as distinct languages,

  • Santa Inés Ahuatempan Popoloca (a.k.a. Ahuatempan, Santa Inés)
  • San Felipe Otlaltepec Popoloca (a.k.a. Otlaltepec, San Felipe)
Western Popoloca
Native toMexico
RegionPuebla
Native speakers
7,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
pow  San Felipe Otlaltepec
pca  Santa Inés Ahuatempan
Glottologsant1454  Santa Ines Ahuatempan[2]
sanf1264  San Felipe Otlaltepec[3]

which are about 75% mutually intelligible. Approximately half of ethnic Popoloca of these towns speak the language.

References

  1. San Felipe Otlaltepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Santa Inés Ahuatempan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Santa Ines Ahuatempan 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 Felipe Otlaltepec Popoloca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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