Popoloca languages

Popoloca
Geographic distribution:	Puebla, Mexico
Linguistic classification:	Oto-Manguean Popolocan Chocho–Popoloca Popoloca
Subdivisions:	Eastern Central/Western
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
  • 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)
  • Western (Ahuatempan–Otlaltepec: Santa Inés, San Felipe)

Notes

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Popolocan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales