"Patrón Nahuatl"

[Frances Karttunen]

I can't come up with the reference right at the moment, but I have  
read someone's published speculations about an inter-lingua with a  
narrow Nahuatl lexicon but without the morphological machinery of  
Nahuatl--used by overseers and Nahuatl-speaking workers on the sugar  
plantations of the Morelos Valley in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th  
centuries. The overseers thought that it was Nahuatl, while the  
native speakers took care that the overseers didn't have the  
opportunity to learn fully inflected Nahuatl.

The place to look would be in reference books about pidgins/jargons  
(such as Chinook Jargon, Anglo-Romany, etc.).  Or else among the  
Roberto Barlow papers. I will search around and see if I can offer a  
real reference.

Fran Karttunen

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