Popoluca

E80060

Popoluca refers to several closely related indigenous languages of the Mixe–Zoquean family spoken by native communities in southern Veracruz, Mexico.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Popoluca people 12
Popoluca canonical 7
Texistepec Popoluca 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mixe–Zoquean language
indigenous language
language group
areaOfStudy historical linguistics of Mesoamerica
language contact in Veracruz
country Mexico
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnolinguisticGroup Popoluca self-linksurface differs
surface form: Popoluca people
geographicDistribution Oluta municipality
Sayula de Alemán municipality
Sierra de Soteapan
Municipality of Orizaba
surface form: Texistepec municipality
hasAlternativeName Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Popoluca (Mixe–Zoquean)

Popoluca languages
hasISO6393Code plo (Oluta Popoluca)
poi (Highland Popoluca / Sierra Popoluca)
poq (Texistepec Popoluca)
pos (Sayula Popoluca)
hasLinguisticAncestor Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Proto-Mixe–Zoquean
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
tone (in some varieties)
hasVariety Oluta Popoluca
Sayula Popoluca
Sierra Popoluca
Popoluca self-linksurface differs
surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
influencedBy Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
languageFamily Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Mixe–Zoquean
languageStatus national indigenous language of Mexico
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
morphology polysynthetic language
notToBeConfusedWith Popoloca (Oto-Manguean languages)
recognizedBy Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas
region Isthmus of Tehuantepec
surface form: Isthmus of Tehuantepec area
spokenIn Mexico
southern Veracruz
Veracruz
surface form: state of Veracruz
subfamily Mixe languages
Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Zoquean languages
subjectOf Mesoamerican linguistic research
usedBy indigenous communities of Veracruz
usedIn local community governance
ritual practices
traditional oral literature
wordOrder verb–subject–object
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Veracruz hasIndigenousPeople Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
eastern Mexico hasIndigenousGroup Popoluca
subject surface form: Eastern Mexico
this entity surface form: Zoque peoples
Sotavento hasEthnicInfluence Popoluca
Popoluca hasVariety Popoluca self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
Popoluca ethnolinguisticGroup Popoluca self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Popoluca
this entity surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
Mixe–Zoquean languages hasLanguage Popoluca
this entity surface form: Texistepec Popoluca
Zoque people relatedGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca peoples
Sayula de Alemán municipality hasIndigenousPopulation Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sayula de Alemán municipality hasEthnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sayula Popoluca ethnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sayula Popoluca hasAlternativeName Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca de Sayula
Sayula Popoluca hasNeighboringLanguages Popoluca
this entity surface form: Soteapanec Popoluca
Oluta Popoluca spokenBy Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Oluta Popoluca ethnicity Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Oluta municipality hasIndigenousPopulation Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Oluta municipality isTraditionalHomelandOf Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
plo (Oluta Popoluca) isSpokenBy Popoluca
subject surface form: Oluta Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
plo (Oluta Popoluca) hasNeighboringLanguage Popoluca
subject surface form: Oluta Popoluca
this entity surface form: Soteapanec Popoluca
pos (Sayula Popoluca) alternateName Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca de Sayula
Popoluca languages areSpokenBy Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca peoples
Sierra Popoluca ethnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people
Sierra de Soteapan ethnicGroup Popoluca
this entity surface form: Popoluca people