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Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Nahuatl Studies Series) [Hardcover]

James Lockhart (Author)
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Nahuatl was the primary native language of central Mexico both before and after the Spanish conquest. It is the Latin of the indigenous languages of the New World. Its tradition of alphabetic writing goes back to the middle years of the sixteenth century and embraces not only grammars, dictionaries, collections of preconquest lore, and works of religious instruction, but also, above all, a great mass of mundane writing by the Nahuas themselves for their own purposes. Though the past quarter century has seen a flourishing of ethnohistorical, philological, and grammatical studies based on this corpus, those interested in the world of Nahuatl texts still find access to it difficult. James Lockhart, an eminent historian of early Latin America, is also perhaps the leading interpreter of this large body of work. He has translated and edited a wide range of texts, analyzed their cultural and linguistic implications, and over the years trained a large number of students, several of whom have gone on to become well known scholars of Nahuatl and other indigenous languages.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for self-study 3 Dec 2001
By Tom reads too much - Published on Amazon.com
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This book provides a fantastic introduction to Nahuatl. The book provides excellent explanations of Nahuatl grammar and uses, from the very start, (as promised) a large number of examples of sentences or phrases to illustrate the grammatical points covered in each lesson.

The book is intended to be an introduction covering the major points of Nahuatl grammar. A few actual texts are provided in the back for work upon completion of the lessons, and there are a few complex and esoteric topics in grammar that Lockhart leaves the reader to investigate with the help of Horacio Carochi's Grammar (available in the dual-language edition translated and annotated by Lockhart).

Together with Carochi's grammar, this book should prepare the student for reading Nahuatl texts.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well done 29 Mar 2009
By Kram Grubrah - Published on Amazon.com
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Here are the strengths:
- Great dictionary that breaks down terms into their morphemes and shows vowel length and glottal stops.
- Nice format, very readable.
- Lots of example texts illustrating grammatical forms.
- Good discussion about the language in it's various stages.
- Not a dumbed down learn-a-language book. Takes a somewhat rigorous linguistic perspective and has a great discussions about language mechanics and even addresses etymology.
- Talks about the evolution of the language and provides texts in various historic stages.
- Talks about the Spanish influence on the language.

Just two things that would have been an improvement:
- Outside of the dictionary, very little of the book acknowledges vowel length or glottal stops. Granted the historic texts themselves ignore these non-Spanish aspects of the language, and the point of the book is to be able to read historic texts, but these aspects of the language are critical in many cases to understanding, so they should be indicated in each example. The traditional readers and writers of the language already knew these aspects and could derive them within a sentence from context. It's difficult for a novice to do this.
- Also, why not just provide a small tabular grammar? It would not have occupied more than a few pages and would have been extremely convenient.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough and reasonably-constructed learning resource 18 Jan 2013
By Mike Burns - Published on Amazon.com
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For all who desire to learn to read this language in the written form as it was written in the early post-Conquest era, this is as good as anything I've looked at, and I examined several others in detail. The logical, progressive way in which Lockhart helps the student to build upon his understanding is masterful. Highly recommend.
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