Autonomous Indigenous People Who Speak Nahuatl]

Tue Mar 25 18:52:15 UTC 2008

I am currently working on a project in Xochitlan de Vicente Suarez (Sierra
Norte de Puebla), where 60 to 70% of the inhabitants are Nahuatl speakers.
Some people that I know have migrated to Pennsylvania and South Carolina,
and some have told me that there are whole xochiteca and serrano families
living there.

I hope you find this useful. Hasta moztla,

-- 
Iván Pedroza
Centro Latinoamericano de la Globalidad

2008/3/25, Messing, Jacqueline <jmessing at cas.usf.edu>:
>
>  Listeros,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Jacqueline Messing, Ph.D.
>
> Assistant Professor
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> Department of Anthropology
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> University of South Florida
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:08 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Nahuat-l] Autonomous Indigenous People Who Speak Nahuatl]
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>
>
> Greetings,
>
>      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 at 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?
>      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?
>
> Tlazo'camati,
> Henry Vasquez
>
> In a message dated 8/28/07 9:11:02 AM, k_salmon at ipinc.net writes:
>
>
>  On Aug 28, 2007, at 8:05 AM, John F. Schwaller wrote:
> > The top ten indigenous groups were:
> >     Náhuatl        2,563,000
> >     Maya            1,490,000
> >     Zapoteco        785,000
> >     Mixteco           764,000
> >     Otomí               566,000
> >     Tzetzal            547,000
> >     Tzotzil              514,000
> >     Totonaca        410,000
> >     Mazateco       339,000
> >     Chol                274,000
>
>
> Looking at this strikes a question that has been in my mind.
> I work as a spanish english medical and legal interpreter.  In the
> course of the last 18 months I have run into many people speaking one
> of the mayan dialects, Yucatec and Quiche being the most common,
> Zapotec and Mixtec as well as a few who speak Cora and Tarascan (or
> was it Tarahumara or was it Huichol *NW mountain range*?).  But never
> have I found people who are bilingual spanish nahuatl.  I wondered if
> it was because most nahuatl speakers ARE bilingual and thus I don't
> know about it.  But people chat with me and I find out from names and
> in general conversation about where they've come from.  The other
> explanation that comes to mind is that the nahua don't want to come
> to the USA... but then, why would the maya come in such numbers?
> This is the rankest curiosity; since I am interested in learning to
> speak nahuatl, I've been paying attention and asking questions.  Does
> anybody have a hypothesis?
>
>
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