Sound / video of Nahuatl

[Henry Kammler]

You may like to listen to a tape that features different dialects currently
spoken in MX:
it's a tape called "Nahuas" from the series "?Qu=E9 lengua hablas?" no. 3,
issued by the INI together with the SEDESOL (Secretar=EDa de Desarrollo
Social).=20

The goal of the tape is actually to be useful for officials who pick up
ind=EDgenas that need help when they've got lost in the city or something an=
d
don't speak Spanish. Then they are supposed to play back that this kind of
tape to the campesino in order to find out where he's from. Which is
totally unrealistic, of course, but makes a nice comparison possible. It
contains sentences like "hi, this guy here is a good one, he will help you,
don't be afraid, just tell him where you are from ..." in five nahuatl
dialects.

Henry