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 to | Mexico |
| Region | Vera Cruz |
| Ethnicity | 10,000 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 1 (2011)[2] |
Mixe–Zoque
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | plo |
| Glottolog | olut1240 |
| ELP | Oluta Popoluca[3] |
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo-Palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | b, p | d, t | ɟ, c | ts | ɡ, k | ʔ |
| Fricatives | f | s | ʃ | tʃ | 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
- Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- "Popoluca, Oluta". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
- Endangered Languages Project data for Oluta Popoluca.
- 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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