Oluta Popoluca

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Oluta Popoluca is an indigenous Mixe–Zoquean language spoken by the Popoluca people in the region of Oluta in Veracruz, Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Oluta Popoluca canonical 6
Oluta Popoluca community 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mixe–Zoquean language
indigenous language
language
country Mexico
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Popoluca people
linked to: Popoluca
glottologCode olut1240
glottologName Oluta Popoluca
hasAlternativeName Oluta Zoque
Olutec
Olutec Mixe–Zoque
linked to: Alotepec Mixe

Olutla Popoluca
hasCulturalAssociation Popoluca traditional practices
indigenous identity in Oluta
hasEndangermentCause dominance of Spanish in education
migration
urbanization
hasLanguageBranch Gulf Zoquean
hasLanguageTypology agglutinative language
hasLinguisticArea Mesoamerican Sprachbund
hasMorphologicalFeature polysynthetic tendencies
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift toward Spanish
hasSpeakerCommunity Oluta Popoluca community
linked to: Oluta Popoluca
hasWordOrder verb–subject–object
isDocumentedIn linguistic fieldwork studies
isMinorityLanguageIn Veracruz
ISO639-3Code plo
isPartOf Mesoamerican linguistic area
languageFamily Mixe–Zoquean
Zoquean
locatedInTimeZone Central Standard Time
linked to: Central Time Zone
majorContactLanguage Spanish
region Gulf Coast of Mexico
spokenBy Popoluca people
linked to: Popoluca
spokenIn Oluta
linked to: Oluta municipality

Veracruz
municipality of Oluta
linked to: Oluta municipality

southeastern Veracruz
subclassOf Mixe–Zoquean languages
Popoluca languages
usedIn everyday communication among elders
ritual speech
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Popoluca hasVariety Oluta Popoluca
Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Oluta Popoluca
Mixe–Zoquean languages hasLanguage Oluta Popoluca
Oluta Popoluca glottologName Oluta Popoluca
Oluta Popoluca hasSpeakerCommunity Oluta Popoluca community
linked to: Oluta Popoluca
Popoluca languages hasLanguage Oluta Popoluca