Oluta Popoluca

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Oluta Popoluca
Olutec
Yaak'awü
Native to	Mexico
Region	Vera Cruz
Ethnicity	10,000 (1990)
Native speakers	<20 (2003)^[1]
Language family	Mixe–Zoque Mixean Oluta Popoluca
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`plo`

Oluta Popoluca also called Olutec is a moribund Mixe–Zoquean language of the Mixean branch spoken by a few elderly people in the town of Oluta in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.

Notes

↑ Zavala 2003, p. 1.

Bibliography

Zavala Maldonado, Roberto. 2003. Obviación en Oluteco. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America–I (23–25 October 2003, University of Texas at Austin).

Mixe–Zoque languages

Mixe

Oaxaca Mixe	Coatlán Mixe Isthmus Mixe Totontepec Mixe Tlahuitoltepec Mixe Juquila Mixe Mazatlán Mixe North Central Mixe Quetzaltepec Mixe

Gulf Mixe	Sayula Popoluca Oluta Popoluca

Chiapas Mixe	Tapachultec†

Zoque

Oaxaca Zoque	Chimalapa Zoque

Chiapas Zoque	Copainalá Zoque Rayón Zoque Francisco León Zoque

Gulf Zoque	Highland Popoluca Texistepec Popoluca Tabasco Zoque

† – Extinct.

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