Popolocan family

Chocholteco (ngigua), Mazatec, Popoloca, Ixcatec

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

Mazateco 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.

Specific variants of Popolocan languages

You can find on this website information about or in the following specific variants of Popolocan languages:

• Mazatec of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón
      Xojon ts'e 'én-ná (in Mazatec)

Publications by members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics

• technical articles
• primers
• books of traditional stories
• dictionaries, vocabularies (Mazatec, Popoloca)
• analyzed texts (Mazatec)
• grammars (Mazatec, Popoloca)
• New Testaments (Mazatec, Popoloca)
• doctoral dissertation
• contribution to the Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México (Ngigua, Mazatec)
• National anthem in Mazatec

For more information

• The Popolocan family is part of the Otomanguean stock.
• Short biography of George and Florence Cowan
• Population statistics by language family
• Ethnologue listing (Popolocan family)