Language name and locationː Highland Popoluca, Mexico [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 高地波波卢卡语, 墨西哥东南部韦拉克鲁斯州

1. tuum

2. wɨsteen

3. tukuteen

4. maktasteen

5. mosteen

6. six up from Spanish numerals

Linguists providing data and dateː Dr. Salomé Guitiérrez Morales, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), Mexico. September 25, 2009.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Salomé Guitiérrez Morales, 2009 年 9 月 25 日 .

Other comments: Highland Popoluca or Sierra Popoluc has only retained five traditional numerals. They used Spanish numerals from six up. Highland Popoluca is spoken by about 60,000 speakers in Veracruz state, Mexico.

Sierra Popoluca Phonemic system:
Sierra Popoluca has 26 distinctive sounds: 20 consonants and 6 vowels. There are 3
additional consonants in borrowed words. Tables 1 and 2 show the native consonants
and vowels. Tables 3 and 4 show consonants borrowed from Spanish and Nahuatl.

Table 1. Consonant Chart.

Table 2. Vowel Chart.

Table 3. Borrowed phonemes from Spanish.

Table 4. Borrowed phonemes from Nahuatl.