Totlahtol

[Michael McCafferty]

John,

I'm happy to hear about this. "Anthropological Linguistics" will soon 
publish my review of Michel Launey's Nahuatl grammar translated to 
English, and one of the bedeviling aspects of his work is the 
perpetuation of Carochi's orthography. The review was held up for a 
while as the editor insisted that I use Carochi's orthography in 
describing various aspects of Nahuatl, and that was difficult for me as 
I see little value in using it.

Best,

Michael


Quoting John Sullivan <idiez at me.com>:

> Piyali notequixpoyohuan,
> 	"Totlahtol" is a Series of the University of Warsaw, IDIEZ and other
> collaborating institutions, for publishing monolingual works in all
> variants of Modern Nahuatl and Classical Nahuatl. Works are
> standardized to the orthography of Campbell/Andrews/Karttunen. We
> hope to accomplish two things with this Series: 1. Get monolingual
> works of Nahuatl from all variants across space and time into the
> hands of native speakers, especially young students; 2. By rigorously
> standardizing the orthography of all variants across space and time,
> and "flooding the market" with these works, we hope to break the
> eighty-year political impasse that has prevented the orthographical
> standardization of Nahuatl. The first work, in the sub-series,
> "Toconehuan", is a children's' book, "Malintzin itlahtol", written by
> Refugio Nava of the University of Tlaxcala. The paper version is now
> being distributed, free of charge, in Nahua communities and in
> educational institutions. You may download a free pdf copy with the
> following link
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15911797/malintzin_itlahtol.pdf
> or go to www.macehualli.org under Publications. When you read the
> book, you will not only recognize the orthography, but you will be
> able to appreciate how Tlaxcallan Nahuatl has evolved over the last
> 500 years. Have fun!
> John
>
> John Sullivan, Ph.D.
> Research Scholar in Nahuatl Studies and
> Academic Director of the Yale-IDIEZ Nahuatl Language Institute,
> Yale University;
> Visiting scholar, Faculty of Artes Liberales
> University of Warsaw;
> Professor of Nahua language and culture
> Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas;
> Director, Zacatecas Institute of Teaching and Research in Ethnology
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