Sierra Popoluca

Sierra Popoluca
Soteapan Zoque
Nuntajɨyi
Native to	Mexico
Region	Veracruz
Native speakers	(30,000 cited 1992)
Language family	Mixe–Zoquean Zoque Gulf Zoquean Sierra Popoluca
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	high1276
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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 28,000 (INALI 2008, based on INEGI 2000, 2005) 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 Nundajɨɨyi which means "true speech", and themselves Nundajɨypappɨc.

Sierra Popoluca is spoken in the following municipalities in the southern foothills of the Sierra de los Tuxtlas (de Jong Boudreault 2009).

Towns where the language is spoken include San Pedro Soteapan, La Piedra Labrada, and Santa Rosa Cintepec. The Nahuatl language is also spoken in nearby Mecayapan, Tatahuicapan de Juárez, and Pajapan, and has influenced Sierra Popoluca as well.

Sierra Popoluca is an ergative, agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language.

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