Morelos Nahuatl

Morelos Nahuatl
Native to Mexico
Region Morelos
Native speakers
19,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nhm
Glottolog more1259[2]

Morelos Nahuatl includes varieties of the Nahuatl language that are spoken in the state of Morelos, Mexico. 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 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.[3] The dialects belong to the Central dialects closely related to Classical Nahuatl.[4]

References

  1. Morelos Nahuatl at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Morelos Nahuatl". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Gordon, Raymond G., Jr., ed. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (online version) (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
  4. Canger, Una (1988). "Nahuatl dialectology: A survey and some suggestions". International Journal of American Linguistics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 54 (1): 28–72. doi:10.1086/466074. OCLC 1753556.

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