Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl

Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl
Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl
Geographic; distribution	Puebla, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, El Salvador
Linguistic classification	Uto-Aztecan Aztecan (Nahuan) Nahuatl Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl; ; ;
Subdivisions	Sierra Puebla Nahuatl; ? Tehuacan-Zongolica Nahuatl; Isthmus Nahuatl; Pipil–Tabasco;
Glottolog	None

Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl is a group of Nahuatl languages, including the Pipil language of El Salvador and the Nahuatl dialects of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, southern Veracruz, and Tabasco (Isthmus dialects):^[1]

Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
?Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl (Tehuacan–Zongolica)
Isthmus Nahuatl
Pipil and Tabasco Nahuatl (incl. extinct Chiapas Nahuatl?)

The boundaries of Eastern Nahuatl are not clear. Southeastern Puebla (Tehuacan-Zongolica) is particularly ambiguous. Hasler (1996:164) summarizes the situation,

"Juan Hasler (1958:338) interprets the presence in the region of [a mix of] eastern dialect features and central dialect features as an indication of a substratum of eastern Nahuatl and a superstratum of central Nahuatl. Una Canger (1980:15–20) classifies the region as part of the eastern area, while Yolanda Lastra (1986:189–190) classifies it as part of the central area."^[2]

References

^ Lastra de Suárez, Yolanda (1986). Las áreas dialectales del náhuatl moderno. Serie antropológica, no. 62. Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 968-837-744-9. OCLC 19632019.(in Spanish)
^ Hasler, Andrés (1996). El náhuatl de Tehuacan-Zongolica. Mexico: CIESAS.

[1] Lastra de Suárez, Yolanda (1986). Las áreas dialectales del náhuatl moderno. Serie antropológica, no. 62. Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 968-837-744-9. OCLC 19632019.(in Spanish)

[2] Hasler, Andrés (1996). El náhuatl de Tehuacan-Zongolica. Mexico: CIESAS.

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