Oluta Popoluca

Oluta Popoluca
Olutec
Yaak'awü
Native toMexico
RegionVeracruz
Ethnicity10,000 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers
1 (2018)[1]
Mixe–Zoque
Language codes
ISO 639-3plo
Glottologolut1240
ELPOluta 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.

77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,[2] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.[1]

Phonology

[edit]

Consonants

[edit]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Plosive p t k ʔ
Affricate ts
Fricative s ʃ h
Rhotic trill r
tap ɾ
Lateral l
Glide w j

Other sounds such as /b, d, ɡ, f/ occur from borrowed words from Spanish.

Vowels

[edit]

Vowels are /i/, /ɨ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /a/; each distinguished with vowel length.

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.

Bibliography

[edit]
  • Zavala, Roberto. 2000. Inversion and other Topics in the Grammar of Olutec (Mixean). Eugene: University of Oregon.
  • 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).