Tehuacan–Zongolica Nahuatl

Tehuacan–Zongolica Nahuatl
Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl
Native to México
Region Puebla, Veracruz
Native speakers
 unknown (260,000 cited 1991–2006)[1]
Uto-Aztecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
nhq – Huaxcaleca
npl – Southeastern Puebla
nsu – Sierra Negra
nlv – Orizaba Nahuatl (Zongolica)
nhz – Santa María la Alta
nhy – Northern Oaxaca
Glottolog tehu1243  (Tehuacan–Zongolica)[2]
huax1236  (Huaxcaleca)[3]
nort2958  (N. Oaxaca)[4]

Tehuacan–Zongolica AKA Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl is a variety of Nahuatl spoken by ethnic Nahua people in southeastern Puebla state (Tehuacan) and southern Veracruz (Zongolica) in Mexico.

Tehuacan–Zongolica has characteristics of both Central Nahuatl and Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl. Hasler (1996:164) summarizes the situation,

"Juan Hasler (1958:338) interprets the presence in the region of [a mix of] eastern dialect features and central dialect features as an indication of a substratum of eastern Nahuatl and a superstratum of central Nahuatl. Una Canger (1980:15–20) classifies the region as part of the eastern area, while Yolanda Lastra (1986:189–190) classifies it as part of the central area."[5]

References

  1. ↑ Huaxcaleca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southeastern Puebla at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sierra Negra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Orizaba Nahuatl (Zongolica) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Santa María la Alta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Northern Oaxaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tehuacan–Zongolica Nahuatl". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Huaxcaleca Nahuatl". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Northern Oaxaca Nahuatl". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  5. ↑ Hasler, Andrés (1996). El náhuatl de Tehuacan-Zongolica. Mexico: CIESAS.


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