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Nahuatl, Highland Puebla

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3azz

Population  125,000 (1983).
Region  Northeast Puebla.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 59
Alternate names   Mejicano de Zacapoaxtla, Náhuat de la Sierra de Puebla, Sierra Aztec, Sierra Puebla Náhuatl, Zacapoaxtla Náhuat
Classification  Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Aztec
Language use  Also use Totonac languages.
Language development  NT: 1979.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  VSO; long words, affixes; nontonal. Pastoralists; peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Key, Harold and Mary R. Key. 1953. "The phonemes of Sierra Nahuat."

Key, Harold and Mary R. Key. 1953. Vocabulario mejicano de la Sierra de Zacapoaxtla, Puebla.

Key, Harold. 1952-53. "Algunas observaciones preliminares de la distribución dialectal del nahuatl en el área Hidalgo-Veracruz-Puebla."

Key, Harold. 1954. "Rito funerario entre los mexicanos de la región de Zacapoaxtla."

Key, Harold. 1957. Vocabularies for languages of the Uto-Aztecan family.

Key, Harold. 1960. "Stem construction and affixation of Sierra Nahuat verbs."

Key, Harold. 1964. "Un diálogo sobre la muerte."

Key, Harold. 1965. "Texts on Nahuat healing methods."

McKinlay, Arch, Harold Key, and Mary R. Key. 1951. Puebla Sierra Aztec texts and dictionary.

McKinlay, Arch. 1948. "The account of a punitive sentence."

McKinlay, Arch. 1950. "Nahuat folklore from Xalacapan, Puebla."

Robinson, Dow F. 1961. "Textos de medicina náhuat."

Robinson, Dow F. 1966. Sierra Nahuat word structure.

Robinson, Dow F. 1969. "Puebla (Sierra) Nahuat prosodies."  Available online

Robinson, Dow F. 1969. Gramatica inductiva mexica (Nahuat de la Sierra de Puebla).

Robinson, Dow F. 1970. Aztec studies 2: Sierra Nahuat word structure.  Available online

Robinson, Dow F. 1970. Gramática inductiva mexica (Nahuat de la Sierra de Puebla).

Robinson, Dow F. 1974. "Prólogo."

Robinson, Dow F., editor. 1969. Aztec studies 1: Phonological and grammatical studies in modern Nahuatl dialects.  Available online