Western Popoloca language
| Western Popoloca | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Puebla |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:pow – San Felipe Otlaltepecpca – Santa Inés Ahuatempan |
| Glottolog | sant1454 Santa Ines Ahuatempansanf1264 San Felipe Otlaltepec |
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)
which are about 75% mutually intelligible. Approximately half of ethnic Popoloca of these towns speak the language.
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ĩ | u, ũ | |
| Mid | e, ẽ | o, õ | |
| Open | a, ã |
Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||||
| Plosive | (p) | t | k | ʔ | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ʂ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ʂ | h | ||||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʐ | ɣ | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | (r) | |||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||||||
Sounds [p, r] only occur from loanwords.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ San Felipe Otlaltepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Santa Inés Ahuatempan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Williams, Ann F.; Pike, Eunice V. (1968). The phonology of Western Popoloca. Lingua, Vol. 20. pp. 368–380.
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