| Oluta Popoluca | |
| Also Known As: | Olutec |
| Nativename: | Yaak'awü |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Veracruz |
| Ethnicity: | 10,000 (1990 census) |
| Speakers: | 1 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Mixe–Zoque |
| Fam2: | Mixean |
| Iso3: | plo |
| Glotto: | olut1240 |
| Glottorefname: | 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.
77 self-reported speaking Oluteco in a 2020 census,[1] but a count published in 2018 found only one remaining speaker.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Glide | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
Other sounds such as /b, d, ɡ, f/ occur from borrowed words from Spanish.
Vowels are /i/, /ɨ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /a/; each distinguished with vowel length.