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.
| Oluta Popoluca | |
|---|---|
| Olutec | |
| Yaak'awü | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Veracruz |
| Ethnicity | 10,000 (1990 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 1 (2018)[1] |
Mixe–Zoque
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | plo |
| Glottolog | olut1240 |
| ELP | Oluta Popoluca |
77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,[2] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.[1]
Phonology
editConsonants
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
editVowels 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).
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