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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. and Earl Brockway. 1988. "Honorific morphology in North Puebla Aztec."

Brockway, Earl, Trudy Brockway and Leodegario Santos V. 2000. Diccionario Náhuatl del norte del estado de puebla.

Brockway, Earl. 1963. "The phonemes of North Puebla Nahuatl."

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

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

Brockway, Earl. 1979. "North Puebla Nahuatl."  Available online

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