Popoluca, Sayula
A language of Mexico
| Population | 4,000 (1990 census). 14 monolinguals. |
| Region | Veracruz, Sayula. |
| Language map |
Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 100 |
| Classification | Mixe-Zoque, Mixe, Veracruz Mixe |
| Language development | Dictionary. NT: 1969. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Whistle speech reported. SOV; VOS, long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
Clark, Lawrence E. 1959. "Phoneme classes in Sayula Popoluca."
Clark, Lawrence E. 1961. Sayula Popoluca texts, with grammatical outline.
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Clark, Lawrence E. 1962. "Sayula Popoluca morpho-syntax."
Clark, Lawrence E. 1969. "Initiation at school: a Sayula Popoluca text."
Clark, Lawrence E. 1977. "Linguistic acculturation in Sayula Popoluca."
Clark, Lawrence E. 1982. "An obsolete numbering system uncovered."
Clark, Lawrence E. 1983. Sayula Popoluca verb derivation.
Clark, Lawrence E. 1995. Vocabulario Popoluca de Sayula.
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Clark, Lawrence E. 2004. "A comparison of person markers in Sayula and Oluta Popoluca."
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