Oluta Popoluca
Oluta Popoluca | |
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Olutec | |
Yaak'awü | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Veracruz |
Ethnicity | 10,000 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 1 (2018)[1] |
Mixe–Zoque
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | plo |
Glottolog | olut1240 |
ELP | 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.
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 | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ||||
Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||
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]- ^ a b c Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 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).