Southern Popoloca language

Southern Popoloca
Native to Mexico
Region Puebla
Native speakers
 (7,000 cited 1991–1993)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
poe – San Juan Atzingo
pbe – Metzontla
Glottolog sanj1285  San Juan Atzingo[2]
mezo1235  Mezontla[3]

Southern Popoloca is an indigenous language of Puebla state, Mexico. There are two principal varieties, sometimes counted as distinct languages:

  • San Juan Atzingo Popoloca (a.k.a. Atzingo, San Juan)
  • Metzontla Popoloca (a.k.a. Los Reyes Metzontla Popoloca) which are about 75% mutually intelligible.

References

  1. ↑ San Juan Atzingo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Metzontla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "San Juan Atzingo Popoloca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mezontla Popoloca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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