Pochutec language

Pochutec
Pochutla
Naguál, nawal
Native toMexico
RegionPochutla, Oaxaca
Extinctlate 20th century
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3xpo
xpo
Glottologpoch1244

Pochutec is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuan (or Aztecan) branch which was spoken in and around the town of Pochutla on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1917, it was documented in a monograph by Franz Boas, who considered the language nearly extinct. In the 1970s, another investigator found two speakers around Pochutla who still remembered a few of the words recorded by Boas.