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Popoluca, Highland

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3poi

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 F., author. 1947. "Sierra Popoluca syllable structure."

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

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1948. "Sierra Popoluca personal names."

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

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1956. Sierra Popoluca morphology.

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1960. "Sierra Popoluca morphology."

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

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1965. "Sierra Popoluca intonation."

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1967. "Sierra Popoluca."

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

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1984. Gramatica Popoluca de la Sierra.

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1989. "Word order in Sierra Popoluca."

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

ELSON, Benjamin F., author. 1992. "Reconstructing Mixe-Zoque."  Available online

ELSON, Benjamin F., author; FERNÁNDEZ DE MIRANDA, María Teresa, translator. 1960. Gramática del popoluca de la Sierra.

ELSON, Benjamin F.; GUTIÉRREZ G., Donaciano, compilers. 1999. Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz.

ELSON, Benjamin F.; MARLETT, Stephen A., authors. 1983. Popoluca evidence for syntactic levels.

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

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

MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1963. "Sierra Popoluca kinship."

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

Vernacular Publications

Hablemos popoluca y español. 2009.

Hablemos popoluca y español. 2009.  Available online

Tacuyujtampa. 2009.

Tacuyujtampa. 2009.  Available online