Nahuatl text from Guerrero

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Mark,
        The "j" in question does not substitute for an "i". It is used to mark  
the final aspiration of the preterite form of the class 3 verb  
mo-yolitia (causative reverential of yoli).
John
On Oct 27, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Mark David Morris wrote:

> Susan and John,
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> Rather than a contemporary text, it also might be an example of the
> memorializing wave that swept across southern Mexico from the late  
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> to 1840s which created or recreated "authentic" native documents,  
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> from 1517 to the 1670s, of all kinds and that used as a standard  
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> anachronistic antique orthography including the "k," that I think was  
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> imitation of classical Greek texts, as well as the 16th-century Spanish
> substitution of  "j" for "i." This orthography tends uniformly to use
> block lettering.
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> MDM, PhD Candidate
> Dept. of History, Indiana Univ.
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John Sullivan, Ph.D.
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