Guerrero Nahuatl

Nahuan language of Mexico
Guerrero Nahuatl
nawatlajtoli
RegionWestern Central Mexico
Native speakers
125,000 (2000)[1]
Language family
Uto-Aztecan
  • Aztecan (Nahuan)
    • Nahuatl
      • Central Nahuatl
        • Guerrero Nahuatl
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
ngu – Guerrero Nahuatl
nuz – Tlamacazapa Nahuatl
Glottologguer1241  Guerrero
tlam1239  Tlamacazapa

The Guerrero Nahuatl language is a Nahuan language spoken by about 125,000 people in Mexico.[1]

Language

It is also known as Guerrero Aztec and Náhuatl de Guerrero. It is spoken in various municipalities of along the Balsas River including Tepecoacuilco de Trujano, Huitzuco de los figueroa, Atenango del Río, Copalillo, Mártir de Cuilapan, Zitlala, Tixtla de Guerrero, Mochitlán, Quechultenango, Chilapa de Álvarez, Ahuacuotzingo, Olinalá, Atlixtac, Zapotitlan Tablas, Ayutla de los Libres, Cualác, Huamuxtitlán, Xochihuehuetlán, Tlapa de Comonfort, Alpoyeca, Xalpatláhuac, and Alcozauca de Guerrero. It is written in the Latin script. There is some video material in addition to a dictionary in this language. It is a subject–verb–object ordered language. The words tend to be long with affixes and clitics. Guerrero Nahuatl is not tonal.[1]

"A long 'l' for other variants is pronounced 'j'l (hl) so the word for 'house', which is 'calli' elsewhere in Nahuatl, is pronounced 'cajli' or 'káhli' in Guerrero."[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Guerrero Nahuatl at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
    Tlamacazapa Nahuatl at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Dictionary of Nahuatl terms, including the story of the flower Cuetlaxochitl (poinsetta)". Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-05-24.

Sources

  • Bartholomew, Doris A.; David Mason (1980). "The registration of transitivity in the Guerrero Aztec verb". International Journal of American Linguistics. 46 (3): 197–204. doi:10.1086/465654. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  • Mason, David (2011). "Vocabulario comparativo del náhuatl: Guerrero Nahuatl, Tlamacazapa Nahuatl. Computer printout of vocabulary items in two dialects of Náhuatl with translation in Spanish, introductory materials and grammatical notes".

External links

  • Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
  • "Muchitlan, Tlaxcala, Mexico - Map from Zumpango del Río, with glosses in Guerrero Nahuatl". World Digital Library.
  • Audio of Guerrero Nahuatl Archived 2013-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  • Mason, David (2013). Tiuelis tikmomachtis náhuatl niman español [Puede hablar el náhuatl] [You Can Speak Nahuatl]. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Retrieved 2013-05-24.. Downloadable book in English or Spanish
  • Náhuatl de Guerrero Nuevo Testamento, available at Lulu.com
  • Ramírez de Alejandro, Cleofas; Karen Dakin (1979). Vocabulario Náhuatl de Xalitla, Guerrero. Cuadernos de la Casa Chata. Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del INAH. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  • OLAC resources in and about the Guerrero Nahuatl language
Guerrero Nahuatl test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
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