Popoloca is an indigenous Mexican cluster of languages of the Popolocan branch of the

Oto-Manguean The Oto-Manguean or Otomanguean () languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean languages, Ma ...

language family, closely related to

Mazatec The Mazatec are an Indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz. Some researchers have theorized that the Mazatec, along with Popoloca spea ...

. They are spoken by 17,000 people in

Puebla Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...

state, Mexico, near

Tehuacán Tehuacán () is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Puebla, nestled in the southeast of the valley of Tehuacán, bordering the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The 2010 census reported a population of 248,716 in the city and 274,906 i ...

Languages

The

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distinguishes seven varieties of Popoloca as separate languages. However, these fall into four groups with 75%

mutual intelligibility In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intelli ...

or greater. *Eastern Popoloca ** Southern (Atzingo–Metzontla: San Juan, Los Reyes) ** Northern (Temalacayuca–Tlacoyalco: San Luis, San Marcos) * Central Popoloca ** Coyotepec (San Mateo dialect may be distinct, or a dialect of San Felipe) **

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(Ahuatempan–Otlaltepec: Santa Inés, San Felipe)

Notes

Popolocan languages Articles citing INALI {{Oto-Manguean-lang-stub