Pidiginization in nawatl ?

[Marc Eisinger]

David,
I have not enough competence to answer straigthforward your question but
:
(1) How do you know that "a considerable number of yuto-aztecan radicals

becomed lost" ?
(2) These kind of examples are numerous in agglutinative languages like
Nahuatl
but there are plenty in other languages too !
Did you notice that desayunar (like breakfast and déjeuner) are
compounds ?
Most, if not all, of the native speakers of Spanish  I know (resp.
English and
French) where not aware of it.
(3) I'm not sure that the notion of "number of radicals" has any more
sense than
the "number of words".
Marc Eisinger


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