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Popoluca, Highland

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: poi

Population	30,000 (1991 SIL).
Region	Veracruz, Soteapan.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 94
Alternate names	Highland Popoluca, Popoluca de la Sierra
Dialects	More similar to Zoque than to Mixe.
Classification	Mixe-Zoque, Zoque, Veracruz Zoque
Language use	Some also use a Nahuatl language.
Language development	Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1977–1996.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VOS; short words, affixes; nontonal. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Elson Benjamin. 1984. Gramatica Popoluca de la Sierra.

Elson, Ben. 1960. "Sierra Popoluca morphology."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1947. "Sierra Popoluca syllable structure."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1947. "The Homshuk: a Sierra Popoluca text."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1948. "Sierra Popoluca personal names."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1951. Review of: Sierra Popoluca speech, by Mary L. Foster and George M. Foster.

Elson, Benjamin F. 1956. Sierra Popoluca morphology.

Elson, Benjamin F. 1960. Gramática del popoluca de la Sierra.

Elson, Benjamin F. 1961. "Person markers and related morphemes in Sierra Popoluca."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1965. "Sierra Popoluca intonation."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1967. "Sierra Popoluca."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1984. "The use of the passive in Sierra Popoluca discourse."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1989. "Word order in Sierra Popoluca."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1990. "Participant reference and argument structure in Sierra Popoluca."

Elson, Benjamin F. 1992. "Reconstructing Mixe-Zoque."  

Elson, Benjamin F. and Donaciano Gutiérrez G. 1999. Diccionario Popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz.

Elson, Benjamin F. and Stephen A. Marlett. 1983. "Popoluca evidence for syntactic levels."

Lind, John O. 1964. "Clause and sentence level syntagmemes in Sierra Popoluca."

Marlett, Stephen A. 1986. "Syntactic levels and multiattachment in Sierra Popoluca."

Merrifield, William R. 1963. "Sierra Popoluca kinship."

Nordell, Norman. 1962. "On the status of Popoluca in Zoque-Mixe."