Oluta Popoluca

Oluta Popoluca also called Olutec is a moribund Mixe–Zoquean language of the Mixean branch spoken by a few elderly people in the town of Oluta in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.

Oluta Popoluca
Olutec
Yaak'awü
Native to	Mexico
Region	Veracruz
Ethnicity	10,000 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers	1 (2018)[1]
Language family	Mixe–Zoque Mixean Oluta Popoluca
Language codes
ISO 639-3	plo
Glottolog	olut1240
ELP	Oluta Popoluca

77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,^[2] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.^[1]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive		p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate			ts	tʃ
Fricative			s	ʃ		h
Rhotic	trill		r
	tap		ɾ
Lateral			l
Glide		w		j

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.