An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Author: Michel Launey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-11

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1139492764

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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.


Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Author: James Richard Andrews

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 9780806134529

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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.


An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl

An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl

Author: Frances E. Karttunen

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780806124216

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This is a comprehensive modern dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans, and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl beginning in the mid-sixteenth century and continuing to the present.


Learn Nahuatl, Language of the Aztecs and Modern Nahuas

Learn Nahuatl, Language of the Aztecs and Modern Nahuas

Author: Yan Garcia

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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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.


Nahuatl as Written

Nahuatl as Written

Author: James Lockhart

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0804744580

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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.


Nahuatl-English/English-Nahuatl (Aztec)

Nahuatl-English/English-Nahuatl (Aztec)

Author: Fermin Herrera

Publisher: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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This dictionary reflects usage largely based on classical norms of the Nahuatl literary tradition, but also includes more contemporary vocabulary.


Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex

Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex

Author: John Major Jenkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-11-03

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1591438241

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The first translation of a previously unknown Aztec codex and its initiatory teachings for 2012 • Discloses the potential for great spiritual awakening offered at the end of the Aztec calendar cycle • Presents the only existing English-language transcription of the Aztec codex, with line-by-line commentary • Contains the epic poetry and metaphysical insights of Beat poet Marty Matz (1934–2001 In 1961 an unknown Aztec codex was revealed to Beat poet and explorer Marty Matz by a Mazatec shaman in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Originally intended for dramatic performance, this codex presents a profound metaphysical teaching describing how the end of time will bring about a visionary ascent. At the behest of his Mazatec teacher, Matz transcribed this pictorial codex into a literary form that would preserve its initiatory teachings and reveal its secret meanings to a wider audience.Pyramid of Fire is an epic poem that provides a vehicle to transport the initiate into the higher realms of consciousness. It represents a barely surviving thread of teachings that have been passed down in secret since the time of the Spanish Conquest. Revealed are the techniques by which man is transported to the stellar realm after death via the solar energy within what the ancients called the “serpent of consciousness.” Line-by-line commentary by Matz and John Major Jenkins provides insights into the perennial philosophy contained in the codex and its relevance to our times.


Thelma D. Sullivan's Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar

Thelma D. Sullivan's Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar

Author: Wick R. Miller

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Annotation. Translated from the 1976 work in Spanish, partially revised by the author (whose work was cut short by her death in 1981); revisions were completed by the translator and editors. An analysis of the structure and elements of this Aztec language. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.


Language

Language

Author: Edward Sapir

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Professor Sapir analyzes, for student and common reader, the elements of language. Among these are the units of language, grammatical concepts and their origins, how languages differ and resemble each other, and the history of the growth of representative languages--Cover.