Morelos
Nahuatl
Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...
includes
varieties of the Nahuatl language that are spoken in the state of
Morelos
Morelos, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos, is a landlocked state located in south-central Mexico. It is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Mun ...
,
Mexico
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. In Morelos, Nahuatl is spoken in the communities of
Cuentepec,
Hueyapan, Santa Catarina,
Xoxocotla, Atlacholoayan and
Tetelcingo. But
Tetelcingo Nahuatl is usually considered a separate variety due to its highly innovative phonology, and has very low mutual intelligibility with the other Morelos variants. ''
Ethnologue
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'' also considers the varieties of San Felipe Tocla and Alpanocan to belong to the Morelos Nahuatl group of dialects although they are located in the state of Puebla. The dialects belong to the Central dialects closely related to
Classical Nahuatl
Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Lat ...
.
Phonology
The following description is that of the Santa Catarina Morelos dialect:
Consonants
/n/ can be heard as
‹when before velar consonants.
Vowels
References
External links
Morelos Nahuatl at SIL-MX
*Founding of Cuentepe
Further reading
*Dakin, Karen and Ryesky, Diana. 1990. Morelos Nahuatl Dialects: Hypotheses on their historical divisions. Morelos en una economia global. Proceedings of the Congress in Cocoyoc, Morelos, November 19023, 1989. Submitted in January 1990
*Barrios E., M. 1949. Textos de Hueyapan, Morelos. Tlalocan 3:53-75.
*Johansson, Patrick, Johansson, Patrick. 1989. El sistema de expression reverencial en Hueyapan, Morelos. Tlalocan XI. 149-162
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*Pequeño diccionario ilustrado; Náhuatl de Cuentepec, Morelos. 2005. 1st ed. Tlalpan, D.F. Mexico: Instituto LingüÃstico de Verano. 32 pages
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