is it zin or tzin??

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thanks Francis!


Where can one purchase this booK  "Speaking Mexicano"????




Frances Karttunen wrote:
> 
> > Frances,
> >
> > it would be interesting to see if the Tlaxcalteca honorific methodology
> > of speaking to their elders has been transmitted to the modern Mexican
> > Spanish spoken in the area.
> 
> Yes it has.  In all its complexity.
> 
> But there are complicated forces at work. Some communities dispense with the
> honorifics in the interest of community solidarity, and even in
> Puebla-Tlaxcala, language shift to Spanish looms.
> 
> Jane and Ken Hill and Alberto Zepeda (of San Miguel Canoa) carried out a
> long-term study of Nahuatl language use in the Malinche volcano area and
> published it as a book titled "Speaking Mexicano."
> 
> Albertohtzin has also team-taught with Joe Campbell and me, teaching those
> four levels of Malinche-area honorifics to quite a few other people from the
> USA, Latin America, and even one from Africa.
> 
> Fran