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- Title
EL CALENDARIO MESOAMERICANO EN LAS LENGUAS OTOMÍ Y NÁHUATL.
- Authors
CARR, DAVID CHARLES WRIGHT
- Abstract
In order to provide evidence that helps to test the hypothesis that there was a relatively homogeneous central Mexican plurilingual culture during the last part of the Prehispanic period and the early years of the colonial period, the author David Wright compares the Otomi calendars, as described in the Huichapan Codex and other documentary sources from the colonial period such as Relación geográfica de Metztitlán, with Nahuatl terms based on other sources. He notes that Motolinia's description, for example, of the Nahuatl festival izcalli for Cuauhtitlan involved an area that was principally Otomi-speaking. In the comparison made, Wright includes the paleographic transcription, and adds a phonemic reading and morphemic analysis for both languages. He finds that in large part the names correspond cross-linguistically and suggests that additional studies need to be made to find more evidence that can be taken into account.
- Subjects
MEXICO; OTOMI calendar; AZTEC calendar; MESOAMERICAN calendar; NATIVE American cosmology; NAHUATL paleography; ANTIQUITIES of indigenous peoples of Mexico; OTOMI cosmology
- Publication
Tlalocan, 2009, Vol 16, p217
- ISSN
0185-0989
- Publication type
Article