Western Popoloca language

Western Popoloca
Native to Mexico
Region Puebla
Native speakers
 7,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
pow – San Felipe Otlaltepec
pca – Santa Inés Ahuatempan
Glottolog sant1454  Santa Ines Ahuatempan[2]
sanf1264  San Felipe Otlaltepec[3]

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

  • Santa Inés Ahuatempan Popoloca (a.k.a. Ahuatempan, Santa Inés)
  • San Felipe Otlaltepec Popoloca (a.k.a. Otlaltepec, San Felipe)

which are about 75% mutually intelligible. Approximately half of ethnic Popoloca of these towns speak the language.

References

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


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