20th-century Nahuatl orthography

[jonathan.amith at yale.edu]

Thanks so much Frances. I'll change my paper accordingly.

Jonathan
Quoting Frances Karttunen <karttu at nantucket.net>:

>> In 1940 a meeting known as the First Aztec Congress was held in Milpa
>>  Alta.  Among its several aims was the goal of establishing an
>> orthography for modern Nahuatl.
>>
>> It was decided to eschew the Spanish look of the traditional
>> orthography.  The letters k and w were preferred over c/qu and hu/uh,
>>  but other digraphs such as tl and ch were retained.  Contrastive
>> vowel length was not marked.
>>
>> For more about the First Aztec Congress, see Between Worlds:
>> Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors, pp. 205-211.
>>
>



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