Book Review: Otto Zwartjes and José Antonio Flores Farfán (eds.), Arte de el Idioma mexicano (1713): gramática, didáctica, dialectología y traductología; Madrid, España: Iberoamericana – Vervuert, 2017. 338 pages. ISBN 978-84-8489-988-4
Résumé
This volume, published by the publishing house Iberoamericana/Vervuert,
within the framework of the series Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera
is the first critical edition of an underdocumented grammar of Nahuatl written in
1713 by Augustinian friar Manuel Pérez. One of the specificities of this Arte de el
idioma mexicano lays in the many instances of Nahua dialect variation made
available by this monograph, particularly from the varieties spoken in the
Mexican valley and at the intersection between the modern states of Puebla,
Morelos and Guerrero (called by the author “Tierra Caliente”). More specifically,
Friar Manuel Pérez describes the Chiautla de la Sal (Puebla) dialect, where he
acquired most of his first-hand knowledge on Mexicano (i.e. Nahuatl) from
native speakers.
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