Oluta Popoluca
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77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,[1] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | ||||
| Plosive | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | ||
| Affricate | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | ||||
| Fricative | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | |||
| Rhotic | trillScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Template:IPAlink | ||||
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| Lateral | Template:IPAlink | |||||
| Glide | Template:IPAlink | Template:IPAlink | ||||
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
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- ↑ Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
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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).