| Western Popoloca | |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Puebla |
| Speakers: | 7,000 |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
| Fam2: | Popolocan |
| Fam3: | Chocho–Popoloca |
| Fam4: | Popoloca |
| Lc1: | pow |
| Ld1: | San Felipe Otlaltepec |
| Lc2: | pca |
| Ld2: | Santa Inés Ahuatempan |
| Glotto: | sant1454 |
| Glottoname: | Santa Ines Ahuatempan |
| Glottorefname: | Santa Ines Ahuatempan Popoloca |
| Glotto2: | sanf1264 |
| Glottoname2: | San Felipe Otlaltepec |
| Glottorefname2: | San Felipe Otlaltepec Popoloca |
Western Popoloca is an indigenous language of Puebla state, Mexico. There are two principal varieties, sometimes counted as distinct languages,
which are about 75% mutually intelligible. Approximately half of ethnic Popoloca of these towns speak the language.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ |
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | 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/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | ||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||