Nahuatlan?

[John F. Schwaller]

>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:11:56 -0600 (MDT)
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:12:09 -0500
>To: nahuat-l at server2.umt.edu
>From: "Ricardo J. Salvador" <salvador at iastate.edu>
>Subject: Re: Nahuatlan?
>
>At 5:31 PM -0400 10/18/00, Mary Hopkins wrote:
>
> >Went to check the language code (a piece of the record not visible
> >to users on most systems) and it informed me that the language was
> >"Nahuatlan." This seems like a logical enough way of covering Nahua,
> >Nahuatl, etc., but I don't think I'd seen it before. Furthermore it has
> >replaced, rather than supplemented, the code that used to just say
> >"Nahuatl."
>
>Mary, see:
>
> >(n=E4=B4wt=B4=B4ln) (KEY), group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan branch of
> >the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock of North and Central America. A
> >Nahuatlan language of great historical importance is Nahuatl, or
> >Aztec. A descendant of the now extinct Aztec, the language of the
> >ancient Aztec empire, Nahuatl is spoken today by approximately 1.5
> >million people, mainly in Mexico. Aztec is thought to have reached 5
> >million people in an area extending from Mexico to Panama. The
> >Nahuatlan group also includes a number of other living languages,
> >such as Pipil and Pochutla, and extinct tongues, among them Toltec,
> >Chichimec, and Nahuatlato. See Native American languages.
>
>Reference: Columbia Encyclopedia (6th Ed.)
>http://www.bartleby.com/65/na/Nahuatla.html
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>
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