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Nahuatl, Northern Puebla

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3ncj

Population  60,000 (1990 census).
Region  North Puebla, Naupan.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 57
Alternate names   Náhuatl del Norte de Puebla, North Puebla Aztec
Classification  Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Aztec
Language development  Dictionary. NT: 1979.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO, long words, affixes, clitics, nontonal. Swidden, peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A.; BROCKWAY, Earl, authors. 1988. "Honorific morphology in North Puebla Aztec."

BROCKWAY, Earl, author. 1963. "The phonemes of North Puebla Nahuatl."

BROCKWAY, Earl, author. 1969. "A lazy man and the jug of gold: a Nahuatl legend."

BROCKWAY, Earl, author. 1969. "Términos de parentesco del Nahuatl (Dialecto del Norte de Puebla)."

BROCKWAY, Earl, author. 1979. "North Puebla Nahuatl."  Available online

BROCKWAY, Earl; BROCKWAY, Trudy Hershey de; SANTOS VALDÉS, Leodegario, compilers. 2000. Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla.

LANGACKER, Ronald W., editor. 1979. Modern Aztec grammatical sketches: Studies in Uto-Aztecan grammar 2.  Available online