Northern Popoloca is an indigenous language of Puebla state, Mexico. The dialects of the two towns where it is spoken, San Luís Temalacayuca (a.k.a. Temalacayuca, San Luís) and San Marcos Tlacoyalco (a.k.a. Tlacoyalco, San Marcos), are over 90% mutually intelligible.
Northern Popoloca | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | Puebla |
Native speakers | (13,000[Total Popoloca suggests this is includes double count] cited 1994–2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:pps – San Luís Temalacayucapls – San Marcos Tlacoyalco |
Glottolog | sanl1248 San Luis Temalacayucasanm1301 San Marcos Tlalcoyalco |
Phonology
editVowels
editFront | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | o~u | |
Mid | ɛ | ||
Open | a |
Consonants
editBilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
Plosive | p | t̪ | t | k | ʔ | |||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | t͡ʂ | |||||||
Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | s | ʃ | ʂ | h | ||||
voiced | β | ð | z | ʒ | ɣ | |||||
Rhotic | ɾ | r | ||||||||
Approximant | l | j |
References
edit- ^ San Luís Temalacayuca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
San Marcos Tlacoyalco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Machin, Polly; Stark, Sharon (1977). Stress and tone in Tlacoyalco Popoloca. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
- ^ Stark C., Sara (2014). Los pronombres en ngigua. SIL-Mexico Electronic Working Papers, 12a.: SIL International.
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