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ZoqueanGulf ZoqueanTexistepec Gulf ZoqueanTexistepec Texistepec Texistepec, commonly called eitherTexistepec PopolucaorTexistepec Zoque, is aMixe–Zoqueanlanguage of theZoqueanbranch spoken by a hundred indigenousPopolucapeople in and around the town of Texistepec in SouthernVeracruz,Mexico. Within the Mixe–Zoquean family, Texistepec Popoluca is most closely related toSierra Popoluca. Texistepec Popoluca has been documented primarily in work bySøren Wichmann, a Danishanthropologicalandhistorical linguistand Ehren Reilly, a former graduate student atJohns Hopkins University.‍‍‍‍‍‍​​​‍​​​​​​ Reilly's work was a part of the largerProject for the Documentation of the Languages of MesoamericaArchived2012-03-18 at theWayback Machine, under the leadership of theUniversity of Pittsburgh'sTerrence Kaufman, and contributed to Kaufman's project of decipheringEpi-Olmecwriting. Less than 100 native speakers of Texistepec Popoluca remained when Søren Wichmann, Ehren Reilly, andTerrence Kaufmanconducted their research between 1990 and 2002, and the language wasmoribund, with no new speakers acquiring the language natively, due to the prevalence of Spanish. Today, all remaining speakers, are elderly, if any survive at all. However, according to a publication from the Program of Revitalization, Strengthening, and Development of the Languages of the Indigenous Nationals, in 2012 there was a recorded 238 speakers in Veracruz, Mexico (INALI).