Mixe–Zoque languages

indigenous language family from southern Mexico

thumb | right | alt=An indigenous Popoluca individual | An indigenous Popoluca individual Popoluca is a Nahuatl term for various indigenous peoples of southeastern Veracruz and Oaxaca. Many of them (about 30,000) speak languages of the Mixe–Zoque family. Others speak languages of the unrelated Oto-Manguean family, in which case the name in English and Spanish is generally spelled Popoloca.