just a quick question

[Frances Karttunen]

Yes, NMY takes this up.  There is a lot of orthographic substitution of
resonants, especially n for others.   Also much intrusion and omission.  Do
have a look at NMY if you can get a copy.

Fran

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>From: Mark David Morris <mdmorris at indiana.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
>Subject: Re: just a quick question
>Date: Thu, Oct 28, 1999, 11:47 AM
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> Regarding nasal consonants, L. Reyes Garcia pointed out to me that "n"
> sometimes substitutes other consonants in colonial writing.  The example I
> showed him was "quanli" for "cualli."  I don't remember if _Nahuatl in the
> Middle Years_ makes comment of this or not.  Is this common inmany types
> of Nahuatl?  Does it occur only with specific consonant/vowel clusters?
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> thanks,
> Mark Morris
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