• DOI:10.1086/465892
Corpus ID: 143084964

An Inconspicuous Basic Split in Nahuatl

@article{Canger1985AnIB,
  title={An Inconspicuous Basic Split in Nahuatl},
  author={Una Canger and K. Dakin},
  journal={International Journal of American Linguistics},
  year={1985},
  volume={51},
  pages={358 - 361}
}

Una Canger, K. Dakin

Published 1985

Sociology

International Journal of American Linguistics

Eric Hamp has often made clear the great importance of little things. In that spirit, we are pleased to present a detail of Nahuatl that reveals important information about the history of that language and its speakers. In the sixteenth-century Nahuatl dictionary compiled by Fray Alonso de Molina (1571), a few words are given in two variant forms, one form with e and one with i: centli, cintli 'macorca de mayz curada y seca'; iztetl, iztitl 'uia'; and itetl, ititl 'barriga o vientre'. Both… CONTINUE READING

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