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popoloca

Family Oto-mangue

Speakers aged 3 and over
17,274

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade
Very high

INALI 2012, on 2000 census figures. The highest-risk variant is shown.

Variants by grade
  • Very high 1
  • High 1
  • Medium 0
  • No immediate risk 2
Status in Glottolog
Threatened

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 7 members with AES (7 in group): threatened=7

Digital resources

One indicator per source, measured in the snapshot of Oct 5, 2026. They are never blended into a single score.

This means the technical building blocks for language tools — translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers — not cultural content like books or music. What we count and where it comes from

Datasets
Hugging Face
1

datasets focused on the language

33 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Models
Hugging Face
0

models focused on the language

106 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source
huggingface
Recorded detail
repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups
Speech corpus
Common Voice
Source does not cover this language

Source does not cover this language

Source
common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail
none of 7 codes is a Common Voice locale
Treebanks
Universal Dependencies
0

released treebanks

Source
universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail
no treebank for any of 7 codes
Speech recognition
Omnilingual ASR
4

varieties supported

Source
omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail
4 of 7 codes supported: pls_Latn, poe_Latn, pow_Latn, pps_Latn

Identity

Glottocode
popo1294
ISO 639-3
pbe, pbf, pca, pls, poe, pow, pps
Match to Glottolog
Several Glottolog languages in one group
Glottolog languages in this group
  • pbf Coyotepec Popoloca coyo1236
  • pbe Mezontla Popoloca mezo1235
  • pow San Felipe Otlaltepec Popoloca sanf1264
  • poe San Juan Atzingo Popoloca sanj1285
  • pps San Luís Temalacayuca Popoloca sanl1248
  • pls San Marcos Tlalcoyalco Popoloca sanm1301
  • pca Santa Inés Ahuatempan Popoloca sant1454

Variants 4

From INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with each variant's risk grade (INALI, 2012).

VariantAutonymRisk
popoloca de orientengiba (de oriente) · ngigua (de oriente) · ngiwa (de oriente)No immediate risk
popoloca del centrongiba (del centro)High
popoloca del nortengigua (del norte) · ngiwa (del norte)No immediate risk
popoloca del ponientengiba (del poniente)Very high