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BrentB

Aug 8, 2005, 6:44 PM

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Not Really a Spanish, but a mexican Question

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I was recently speaking with an indigenous obrero,at work and he pronounces náhautl as "nawa". Is this the accepted pronounciation in the Americas?

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Brent

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esperanza

Aug 8, 2005, 8:29 PM

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Re: [BrentB] Not Really a Spanish, but a mexican Question

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Brent, your spelling is just a bit off, which would possibly account for your question. From the Diccionario del español usual en México:

nahua adj y s 1 Náhuatl: el nahua y otras lenguas nativas 2 pl Pueblo náhuatl: fuentes históricas nahuas, los antiguos sabios nahuas.

náhuatl 1 s m Lengua de distintos grupos indígenas, como los mexicas, colhuas, xochimilcas, tlaxcaltecas, cholultecas o toltecas; se habla principalmente en algunas regiones de los actuales estados de Morelos, Tlaxcala, Guerrero, Veracruz, Michoacán, México, el Distrito Federal y en ciertas zonas de América Central. Era la lengua más difundida en Mesoamérica en el momento de la conquista y en ella se escribió la mayoría de las obras que se refieren al México prehispánico, como los poemas de Nezahualcóyotl y la Crónica Mexicayotl 2 adj y s m y f Que pertenece o se relaciona con la lengua y la cultura correspondiente a estos grupos indígenas: literatura náhuatl, poemas nahuas, escritura náhuatl, música náhuatl, palabras nahuas, los nahuas de Tenochtitlán.

Both words are usually pronounced nahua here in México lindo y querido.

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BrentB

Aug 9, 2005, 5:07 PM

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Re: [esperanza] Not Really a Spanish, but a mexican Question

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Thanks Esperanza, I think I made a "typo" or error de dedo, as we say in the chamba. I think us gringos pronounced the TL, but couldn't remember from anthropology class.
Thanks again.

Brent

esperanza

Aug 9, 2005, 8:40 PM

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