Texistepec Popoluca
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| Texistepec Popoluca | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | Vera Cruz | |
| Total speakers: | >400 | |
| Language family: | American Mixe-Zoquean Texistepec Popoluca |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | poq | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Texistepec Popoluca also called Texistepec Zoque is a Mixe-Zoquean language of the Zoquean branch spoken by around 400 indigenous Popoluca people in and around the town of Texistepec in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.
Within the Mixe-Zoquean family, Texistepec Popoluca is most closely related to Sierra Popoluca.
Less than 100 native speakers of Texistepec Popoluca remain.
Texistepec Popoluca has been documented primarily in work by Søren Wichmann, a Danish anthropological and historical linguist and Ehren Reilly, currently a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University
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