POI ISO 639-3
Popoluca, Highland
Nuntajɨyi Autonym
A language of Mexico
- ISO 639
- poi
- Alternate Names
- Popoluca, Popoluca de la Sierra
- Autonym
- Nuntajɨyi
- Population
- 37,700 (2015 INEGI). Total Popoloca speakers: 61,800 (2020 INEGI).
- Location:
- Veracruz state: Amamaloya, Barosa, Buena Vista, Col Benito Juárez, Cuilonia, El Aguacate, Estrivera, Guadalupe Victoria, Horno de Cal, Kilómetro Diez, La Florida, La Magdalena, Las Palmas, Soteapan; Bay of Campeche, area inland between Lake Catemaco and San Juan point, towards Hueyapan and Acayucan.
- Language Status
- 5 (Developing).
- Classification
- Mixe-Zoquean, Zoquean, Gulf Zoquean
- Dialects
- None known. More similar to Zoque than to Mixe.
- Typology
- VOS; short words, affixes; nontonal.
- Language Use
- Used by all. Some also use a Nahuatl language.
- Language Development
- Literature. Radio. Dictionary. NT: 1977–1997.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Popoluca, Highland
- Writing
- Latin script [Latn].
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Location: Veracruz state: Amamaloya, Barosa, Buena Vista, Col Benito Juárez, Cuilonia, El Aguacate, Estrivera, Guadalupe Victoria, Horno de Cal, Kilómetro Diez, La Florida, La Magdalena, Las Palmas, Soteapan; Bay of Campeche, area inland between Lake Catemaco and San Juan point, towards Hueyapan and Acayucan.
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