Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl is a group of
Nahuatl languages, including the
Pipil language
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of
El Salvador
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and the
Nahuatl dialects of the
Sierra Norte de Puebla
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, southern
Veracruz
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, and
Tabasco
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It is located in ...
(Isthmus dialects):
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Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
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Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl (Tehuacan–Zongolica)
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Isthmus Nahuatl
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Pipil and
Tabasco Nahuatl (incl. extinct
Chiapas Nahuatl?)
The boundaries of Eastern Nahuatl are not clear. Southeastern Puebla (Tehuacan-Zongolica) is particularly ambiguous. Hasler (1996:164) summarizes the situation,
:"Juan Hasler (1958:338) interprets the presence in the region of
mix ofeastern 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."
References
{{Uto-Aztecan languages
Nahuatl
Languages of El Salvador