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Popolocan Family

Chocholteco (ngigua), Mazatec, Popoloca, Ixcatec

SIL has not done extensive investigations in Chocholteco of Oaxaca (also known as Ngigua).


Mazatec includes four or five important variants (in Oaxaca, Veracruz and Puebla). The Summer Institute of Linguistics has done investigations in four of these.


Popoloca has six important variants in the state of Puebla.


The name Ixcatec is used for another language of this family, believed by many to be extinct, and also for a variant of Mazatec.


Map of Mexico Map: where the Popolocan family languages are spoken Map: where the Popolocan family languages are spoken
Specific varieties of languages in the Popolocan Family
Name
(with links to more details on some)
Ethnologue entries
Chocholtec coz
Ayautla Mazatec vmy
Chiquihuitlánz Mazatec maq
Huautla Mazatec mau
Ixcatlán Mazatec mzi
Jalapa de Díaz Mazatec maj
Mazatlán Mazatec vmz
Eloxochitlán / San Jerónimo Mazatec maa
Soyaltepec Mazatec vmp
Coyotepec Popoloca pbf
Mezontla Popoloca pbe
San Felipe Otlaltepec Popoloca pow
San Juan Atzingo Popoloca poe
San Luís Temalacayuca Popoloca pps
San Marcos Tlacoyalco Popoloca pls
Santa Inés Ahuatempan Popoloca pca
Ixcatec ixc
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