Popoloca languages
Not to be confused with Popoluca.
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Geographic distribution: | Puebla, Mexico |
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Glottolog: | popo1294[1] |
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.
- Eastern Popoloca
- Central Popoloca
Notes
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Popolocan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
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