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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>There are many Nahuatl speaking people in
the U.S., and as has been suggested (earlier on in this digital conversation),
many or most of them are also speakers of Spanish. I’m working on an
article about this at the moment, based on research in Tlaxcala, Mexico and the northeast U.S. I’ve interviewed people in Mexicano/Nahuatl speaking
communities in the state of Tlaxcala about their social networks in the US (among other topics related to language use and ideology). My research indicates that
most speakers are in New York, New England and LA county, with some scattered
smaller communities in Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas as well. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.</span></font></p>
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color:blue'> Florida</span></font></p>
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color:blue'>, FL 33620-8100</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
nahuatl-bounces@lists.famsi.org [mailto:nahuatl-bounces@lists.famsi.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>HJVsqzIMIS@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:08
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> nahuatl@lists.famsi.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nahuat-l] Autonomous
Indigenous People Who Speak Nahuatl]</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Geneva><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'>Greetings,<br>
<br>
I'm sorry to bring back a topic that may have been
answered already, but did anybody ever come up with some kind of reasoning for
this phenomenon that almost no Nahuatl speakers come to the United States? I was a bilingual teacher in California for 33 years, and I found the same
situation in the schools as k_salmon@ipinc.net observed. Many of my students
were Zapotec, Mixtec, Tarasco, Mayan, Huichol, and other language speakers, but
never Nahuatl. I visit open air markets in California and find the same groups
among the vendors and shoppers. So far there I have never come across a Nahuatl
speaker. Are they hiding in some specific areas maybe?<br>
Some teacher friends in Coachella, CA tell me of a
trailer park in the community of Thermal where there are hundreds of Purépeches
(Tarascos). Could there be any such communities of Nahuas in California or
other states?<br>
<br>
Tlazo'camati,<br>
Henry Vasquez<br>
<br>
In a message dated 8/28/07 9:11:02 AM, k_salmon@ipinc.net writes:<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Geneva FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'>On Aug 28, 2007, at
8:05 AM, John F. Schwaller wrote:<br>
> The top ten indigenous groups were:<br>
> Náhuatl 2,563,000<br>
> Maya 1,490,000<br>
> Zapoteco 785,000<br>
> Mixteco 764,000<br>
> Otomí
566,000<br>
> Tzetzal 547,000<br>
> Tzotzil
514,000<br>
> Totonaca 410,000<br>
> Mazateco 339,000<br>
> Chol
274,000</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Geneva;color:black'><br>
Looking at this strikes a question that has been in my mind.<br>
I work as a spanish english medical and legal interpreter. In the <br>
course of the last 18 months I have run into many people speaking one <br>
of the mayan dialects, Yucatec and Quiche being the most common, <br>
Zapotec and Mixtec as well as a few who speak Cora and Tarascan (or <br>
was it Tarahumara or was it Huichol *NW mountain range*?). But
never <br>
have I found people who are bilingual spanish nahuatl. I wondered
if <br>
it was because most nahuatl speakers ARE bilingual and thus I don't <br>
know about it. But people chat with me and I find out from names
and <br>
in general conversation about where they've come from. The other <br>
explanation that comes to mind is that the nahua don't want to come <br>
to the USA... but then, why would the maya come in such numbers?<br>
This is the rankest curiosity; since I am interested in learning to <br>
speak nahuatl, I've been paying attention and asking questions.
Does <br>
anybody have a hypothesis?<br>
<br>
</span></font><font face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-family:Arial'><br>
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