Native to Mexico Native speakers (30,000 cited 1992) Glottolog high1276 | Region Veracruz ISO 639-3 poi | |
Language family Mixe–Zoquean
Zoque
Gulf Zoquean
Sierra Popoluca | ||
Sierra Popoluca, also sometimes referred to as Soteapanec, Soteapan Zoque, or Highland Popoluca, is a Mixe–Zoquean language of the Zoquean branch. It is spoken by 28,000 (INALI 2008, based on INEGI 2000, 2005) indigenous Popoluca people in and around the town of Soteapan in the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz, Mexico. The speakers themselves call their language Nundajɨɨyi which means "true speech", and themselves Nundajɨypappɨc.
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Distribution
Sierra Popoluca is spoken in the following municipalities in the southern foothills of the Sierra de los Tuxtlas (de Jong Boudreault 2009).
Towns where the language is spoken include San Pedro Soteapan, La Piedra Labrada, and Santa Rosa Cintepec. The Nahuatl language is also spoken in nearby Mecayapan, Tatahuicapan de Juárez, and Pajapan, and has influenced Sierra Popoluca as well.
Grammar
Sierra Popoluca is an ergative, agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language.