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Nahuatl languageUto-Aztecan language of Mexico, which continues to be spoken by more than a million modern Mexicans in various markedly divergent dialects. Nahuatl was the language of perhaps the majority of the inhabitants of pre-Conquest central Mexico, including Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City), the capital of the Aztec empire. Soon after the Conquest in the 1520s, Nahuatl began to be written in a Spanish-based orthography, and an abundance of documents survive from the colonial period, including annals, municipal records, poetry, formal addresses, and The History of the Things of New Spain, a remarkable compendium of Nahua culture compiled by Indian informants under the direction of the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590). 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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| Moreover, it is noteworthy that the first volume of Repertorium Columbianum is We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, edited by the important contemporary scholar of Nahuatl language and culture, James Lockhart. Many of Cuernavaca's street sellers live three hours away by bus in the neighboring state of Guerrero, in impoverished villages where the ancient Nahuatl language, not Spanish, is the principal tongue. After the all-encompassing, all-age anthologies, Bierhorst proceeded steadily on two parallel tracks, the while continuing the study of the Nahuatl language and Aztec literature initially touched off by an intriguing inscription on a Mexican wall. |
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