Author : Yan Garcia
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category :
ISBN :
Learn Nahuatl, the language used by the Mexica (Aztec) civilization and still preserved by over a million people in Mexico. This guide is not written for the expert linguist, but rather for the beginner. Included are hundreds of examples and dozens of practice sets. An emphasis is placed on the Huasteca variety of Chicontepec, Veracruz. This second edition presents with improved updates, more vocabulary sections, larger reference dictionary, and new included grammar sections.
Author : Yan Garcia
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2016-07-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781532960543
Learn Nahuatl, the language used by the Mexica (Aztec) civilization and still preserved by over a million people in Mexico. This guide is not written for the expert linguist, but rather for the beginner. Included are hundreds of examples and dozens of practice sets. An emphasis is placed on the Huasteca variety of Chicontepec, Veracruz.
Author : Michel Launey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139492764
Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is illustrated clearly with examples, exercises and passages for translation. A key is provided to allow students to check their answers. By far the most approachable textbook of Nahuatl available, this book will be an excellent teaching tool both for classroom use and for readers pursuing independent study of the language. It will be an invaluable resource to anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, archaeologists and linguists alike.
Author : James Richard Andrews
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780806134529
Nahuatl is the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. This text introduces the language using an anthropological approach, teaching learners to understand Nahuatl according to its own distinctive grammar and to reject translationalist descriptions based on English or Spanish notions of grammar. In particular, the author emphasizes the nonexistence of words in Nahuatl (except for the few so-called particles) and stresses the nuclear clause as the basis for Nahuatl linguistic organization.
Author : Isabel Laack
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004392017
Laack’s study presents an innovative interpretation of Aztec religion and art of writing. She explores the Nahua sense of reality from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion and analyzes Indigenous semiotics and embodied meaning in Mesoamerican pictorial writing.
Author : Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0816533539
This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers--Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.
Author : Jill Leslie McKeever Furst
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300072600
A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.
Author : Fermin Herrera
Publisher : Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This dictionary reflects usage largely based on classical norms of the Nahuatl literary tradition, but also includes more contemporary vocabulary.
Author : James Lockhart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0804744580
This book, based on many years of teaching the natural language, is a set of lessons that can be understood by students working alone or used in organized classes and contains an abundance of examples that serve as exercises.
Author : Gordon Whittaker
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category :
ISBN : 9780520380370
A portal to the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Aztec Empire. For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, yielding the first cities of the Western Hemisphere and developing writing systems that could rival those of the East in their creativity and efficiency. The Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs reigned over one of the greatest imperial civilizations the Americas had ever seen, and until now their intricate and visually stunning hieroglyphs have been overlooked in the story of writing. In this innovative volume Gordon Whittaker provides the reader with a step-by-step, illustrated guide to reading Aztec glyphs, as well as the historical and linguistic context needed to appreciate and understand this fascinating writing system. He also tells the story of how this enigmatic language has been deciphered and gives a tour through Aztec history as recorded in the richly illustrated hieroglyphic codices. This groundbreaking guide is essential reading for anyone interested in the Aztecs, hieroglyphs, or ancient languages.
