20th-century Nahuatl orthography

[Frances Karttunen]

> In 1940 a meeting known as the First Aztec Congress was held in Milpa
>  Alta.  Among its several aims was the goal of establishing an
> orthography for modern Nahuatl.
>
> It was decided to eschew the Spanish look of the traditional
> orthography.  The letters k and w were preferred over c/qu and hu/uh,
>  but other digraphs such as tl and ch were retained.  Contrastive
> vowel length was not marked.
>
> For more about the First Aztec Congress, see Between Worlds:
> Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors, pp. 205-211.
>
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