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Preferred term

poiSierra Popoluca  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • 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 around 30,000 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 which means "true speech", and themselves .

Entry terms

  • Highland Popoluca
  • Popoluca, Highland

ISO 639-3 code

  • poi

Notation

  • poi

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/poi

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