Sayula Popoluca

Sayula Popoluca
Sayultec tʉcmay-ajw
Spoken in	Mexico
Region	Vera Cruz
Native speakers	4,000  (1990 census)
Language family	Mixe–Zoque Mixean Sayula Popoluca
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pos

Sayula Popoluca, also called Sayultec, is a Mixe language spoken by around 4,000 indigenous people in and around the town of Sayula de Alemán in the southern part of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The language has been extensively studied by Lawrence E. Clark, whose results have been made available in numerous publications from the Summer Institute of Linguistics [see bibliography]. More recent studies of Sayula Popoluca have been conducted by Dennis Holt (lexico-semantics) and Richard Rhodes (morphology and syntax), but few of their findings have been published.

		Bilabial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Plosives		b, p		d, t				ɡ, k		ʔ
Fricatives				s		ʃ				h
Affricates				ts, tʃ
Nasals		m		n
Approximants		w		l, r		j

Bibliography

• Clark, Lawrence E. "Sayula Popoluca Texts, with Grammatical Outline". Linguistic Series, 6. Norman, Oklahoma: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1961.
• --- Vocabulario popoluca de Sayula. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves", 104. Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1995.
• Holt, Dennis. "Poemo Sayula Popoluca". The Third Page, 2002. [1]