Southern Coahuila Nahuatl

Southern Coahuila Nahuatl
Native toMexico
RegionCoahuila, Nuevo Leon
Extinct20th century[1]
Uto-Aztecan
Language codes
ISO 639-3nah

Southern Coahuila Nahuatl,[2] or Neotlaxcaltec Nahuatl, is a variety of Nahuatl that was spoken in the northeast of Mexico, mainly in the municipalities of San Esteban,[3] Parras de la Fuente,[4] Guadalupe and Bustamante.[5] A related variety was spoken in the west and central-north zones of the country, in the municipalities of Tlaltenango, Juchipila, Tlacuitlapán, Mexquitic and Colotlán.[6]

During the colonial era, the Tlaxcaltec colonization of the northeast of New Spain led to the foundation of new settlements and cities. San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala,[7] in the south of Coahuila, was the most influential,[8] and from here families of Tlaxcaltec colonists dispersed to found new cities like San Miguel de Aguayo (today Bustamante, Nuevo León)[9] and Santa María de las Parras (today Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila).[4] The latter, in turn, was a point of dispersion for families to found Viesca.[10]

This northern variety, derived from 16th-century Tlaxcala Nahuatl, developed certain innovations which can be observed in documents written in it, primarily proceeding from the south of Coahuila[3] and the north of Nuevo León,[11] as the region was essentially devoid of other Nahua settlements. There is a short vocabulary list of this variety, which was published in the 20th century.[2]

  1. ^ Southern Coahuila Nahuatl at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b "El náhuatl de los tlaxcaltecas de San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala".
  3. ^ a b Offutt, Leslie S. (1992). "Levels of acculturation in northeastern New Spain; San Esteban testaments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries". Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl. 22: 409–443.
  4. ^ a b "El sur de Coahuila en el siglo XVII" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Destaca Nuevo León por su diversidad lingüística. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León".
  6. ^ "Las milicias tlaxcaltecas en Saltillo y Colotlán".
  7. ^ "The Nahuatl Testaments of San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala (Saltillo)" (PDF).
  8. ^ "San Esteban de la Nueva Tlaxcala. La formación de su identidad colonizadora" (PDF).
  9. ^ "La herencia tlaxcalteca".
  10. ^ "Viesca (Coahuila) Viesca". mexico.PueblosAmerica.com (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-08-12.
  11. ^ "Historia social de una comunidad Tlaxcalteca: San Miguel de Aguayo (Bustamante, N.L.) 1686-1820 (review)".