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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Nahuatl, Tetelcingo

Nahuatl, Tetelcingo

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3nhg

Population  3,500 (1990 census).
Region  Morelos, Tetelcingo.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 76
Alternate names   Tetelcingo Aztec
Dialects  Distinct from Morelos Nahuatl [nhm].
Classification  Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Aztec
Language use  Also use Spanish.
Language development  Grammar. NT: 1980.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO, VSO, VOS (order of frequency); long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Brewer, Forrest and Jean G. Brewer. 1962. Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos.

Brewer, Forrest. 1969. "Morelos (Tetelcingo) Nahuatl verb stem constructions."  Available online

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

Pittman, Catherine. 1951. Modern household utensils of an Aztec village.

Pittman, Ricardo, compiler. n.d.. Vocabulario medico.

Pittman, Richard S. 1945. "La historia de Pedro Sa-kinemilea."

Pittman, Richard S. 1948. "Nahuatl honorifics."

Pittman, Richard S. 1951. Tetelcingo Aztec texts and dictionary.

Pittman, Richard S. 1953. A grammar of Tetelcingo (Morelos) Nahuatl.

Pittman, Richard S. 1954. A grammar of Tetelcingo (Morelos) Nahuatl.

Pittman, Richard S. 1961. "The phonemes of Tetelcingo (Morelos) Nahuatl."

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

Townsend, William Cameron. 1937. "Comparaciones morfológicas entre cakchiquel y nahuatl."

Townsend, William Cameron. 1937. "Morphological similarities between Cakchiquel and Nahuatl."

Tuggy, David H. 1979. "Tetelcingo Náhuatl."  Available online

Tuggy, David H. 1981. The transitivity-related morphology of Tetelcingo Nahuatl: An exploration in space grammar.

Tuggy, David H. 1983. "Aztec causative/applicatives in space grammar."

Tuggy, David. 1988. "Náhuatl causative/applicatives in cognitive grammar."

Tuggy, David. 2004. "Dissimilation in mösiehuali̬ (Tetelcingo Nahuatl): a cognitive grammar perspective."

Vernacular Publications

Tlaamapoaliz amoxtli: iancayo "Mexicayotl". 1945.