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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. James Lockhart, an eminent historian of early Latin America, is also perhaps the leading interpreter of this large body of work. He has translated and edited a wide range of texts, analyzed their cultural and linguistic implications, and over the years trained a large number of students, several of whom have gone on to become well known scholars of Nahuatl and other indigenous languages.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Historical & comparative linguistics

• Full title: Nahuatl as Written
• Subtitle: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts
• Author: James Lockhart
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780804744584
• ISBN: 0804744580
• ID: 04717454
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 277 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2002

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