Sierra Popoluca

Sierra Popoluca
Soteapan Zoque
Nuntajɨyi
Native to Mexico
Region Veracruz
Native speakers
30,000 (1992)[1]
Mixe–Zoquean
  • Zoque

    • Gulf Zoquean
      • Sierra Popoluca
Language codes
ISO 639-3 poi
Glottolog high1276[2]

Sierra Popoluca, also sometimes referred to as Soteapanec, Soteapan Zoque, or Highland Popoluca, is a Mixe–Zoquean language of the Zoquean branch. It is spoken by 28,000 (INALI 2008, based on INEGI 2000, 2005) indigenous Popoluca people in and around the town of Soteapan in the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz, Mexico. The speakers themselves call their language Nundajɨɨyi which means "true speech", and themselves Nundajɨypappɨc.

Distribution

Sierra Popoluca is spoken in the following municipalities in the southern foothills of the Sierra de los Tuxtlas (de Jong Boudreault 2009).

Towns where the language is spoken include San Pedro Soteapan, La Piedra Labrada, and Santa Rosa Cintepec. The Nahuatl language is also spoken in nearby Mecayapan, Tatahuicapan de Juárez, and Pajapan, and has influenced Sierra Popoluca as well.

Phonology

Bilabial Alveolar Alveolo-Palatal Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosives b, p d, t ɟ, c ts ɡ, k ʔ
Fricatives s ʃ h
Nasals m n ɲ ŋ
Approximants w j

Grammar

Sierra Popoluca is an ergative, agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language.[3]

Recordings

References and further reading

  1. Sierra Popoluca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Highland Popoluca". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. De Jong Boudreault, Lynda (2009). A grammar of Sierra Popoluca (Dissertation). University of Texas at Austin.


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