pre-conquest lingua franca sources

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I once saw a Nahuatl text with English translation in a Nahuatl textbook, saying that (around or before when the Spanish came) in Mayan-speaking areas some people could be found that could speak Nahuatl.

kelly.mcdonough at austin.utexas.edu wrote:-
> Can anyone point me to substantive sources dealing with the use of language
> as a form of imperial expansion in *pre-conquest* Mesoamerica?
> Many thanks in advance.
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