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Nahuatl, Orizaba

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: nlv

Population	120,000 (1991 SIL).
Region	Veracruz, Orizaba area.
Language map	Western Central Mexico, reference number 68
Alternate names	Náhuatl de la Sierra de Zongolica, Orizaba Aztec
Dialects	Ixhuatlancillo Nahuatl. 79% intelligibility with Nahuatl [nhm] (Morelos) (most similar).
Classification	Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Aztec
Language development	Taught in primary schools. Bible portions: 1995.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	1 secondary school. Animal husbandry: cattle, sheep, goats; agriculturalists: floriculture, coffee; merchants.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Goller, Theodore R., Patricia L. Goller, and Viola G. Waterhouse. 1974. "The phonemes of Orizaba Nahuatl."

Tuggy, David H. 1985. "Why the oddness of reflexives isn’t odd."

Tuggy, David H. 1988. "La distinción entre afijos y raíces en náhuatl de Orizaba, según la gramática cognoscitiva."

Tuggy, David H. 1989. "The Nahuatl verb maka: a cognitive grammar analysis."

Tuggy, David H. 1991. Lecciones para un curso del náhuatl moderno.

Tuggy, David. 1986. "Noun incorporations in Nahuatl."

Tuggy, David. 1992. "The affix-stem distinction: a cognitive grammar analysis of data from Orizaba Nahuatl."

Tuggy, David. 1994. "El verbo ‘maka’ del náhuatl: Un análisis cognoscitivo."

Tuggy, David. 1996. "Dative-like constructions in Orizaba Nahuatl."

Tuggy, David. 2003. "The Nawatl verb 'kīsa: a case study in polysemy."