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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.

77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census, but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.

Phonology

Consonants

Other sounds such as /b, d, ɡ, f/ occur from borrowed words from Spanish.

Vowels

Vowels are /i/, /ɨ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /a/; each distinguished with vowel length.

Notes

1. ^ Oluta Popoluca at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.

Bibliography

• Zavala, Roberto. 2000. Inversion and other Topics in the Grammar of Olutec (Mixean). Eugene: University of Oregon.

• 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).

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