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 branch of the ...
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.
Language family
The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family wh ...
. They are spoken by 17,000 people
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in Puebla state, Mexico, near ]Tehuacán "By faith and hope"
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Languages
The Ethnologue 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 languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...
or greater.
*Eastern Popoloca
** Southern (Atzingo–Metzontla: San Juan, Los Reyes)
** Northern (Temalacayuca–Tlacoyalco: San Luis, San Marcos)
* Central Popoloca
**Coyotepec
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(San Mateo dialect may be distinct, or a dialect of San Felipe)
**Western
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(Ahuatempan–Otlaltepec: Santa Inés, San Felipe)
Notes
Popolocan languages
Articles citing INALI
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