Popoloca languages

Not to be confused with Popoluca.
Popoloca
Geographic
distribution:
Puebla, Mexico
Linguistic classification:

Oto-Manguean

Subdivisions:
  • Eastern
  • Central/Western
Glottolog: popo1294[1]

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The Popoloca languages, number 6 (purple), center.

Popoloca is an indigenous Mexican cluster of languages of the Popolocan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family, closely related to Mazatec. They are spoken by 18,000 [2] in Puebla state, Mexico, near Tehuacán.

Languages

The Ethnologue distinguishes seven varieties of Popoloca as separate languages. However, these fall into four groups with 75% mutual intelligibility or greater.

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Popolocan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales


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