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Nahuatl: see Nahuatlan Nahuatlan (nä`wŏt'lən) ..... Click the link for more information. ; Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Ocotlan' is the Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) word for "place of the pine tree. This includes learning a vocabulary of the ancient Aztec language, Nahuatl, and an understanding of the ``base 20'' mathematics used to build ancient pyramids and master astronomy. Such a lack of consultation might be over-looked except that Krippner-Martinez himself rehearses at considerable length the problems of translation and interpretation in colonial encounters, such as in the case of the trial of the Cazonci, in which the transcript was often a Spanish translation of Indian language depositions in Purepecha and Nahuatl. |
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