Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts by James Lockhart
Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts by James Lockhart
English | July 1, 2002 | ISBN: 0804742820, 0804744580 | 264 Pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | July 1, 2002 | ISBN: 0804742820, 0804744580 | 264 Pages | PDF | 12 MB
Nahuatl was the primary native language of central Mexico both before and after the Spanish conquest. It is the Latin of the indigenous languages of the New World. Its tradition of alphabetic writing goes back to the middle years of the sixteenth century and embraces not only grammars, dictionaries, collections of preconquest lore, and works of religious instruction, but also, above all, a great mass of mundane writing by the Nahuas themselves for their own purposes. Though the past quarter century has seen a flourishing of ethnohistorical, philological, and grammatical studies based on this corpus, those interested in the world of Nahuatl texts still find access to it difficult.