Popoloca languages

Not to be confused with Popoluca.

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

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Popolocan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales

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