[Aztlan] Nahua Loan Words in Maya Texts

[David Hixson]

I realize that this notice is too late for most to
attend the lecture (today, Friday, 4 pm at MARI,
Tulane University), but I thought the abstract and
list of publications would be of interest to those who
have followed the Aztlan thread about the linguistic
origin of "Cacao"...

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Speaker: Martha Macri

Suggested title: Nahua Words in Maya Texts?

According to many linguists Nahua was not in southern
Mesoamerica until the eleventh or twelfth century.
Nevertheless, several syllabic spellings found in
Classic Maya texts suggest that the Nahua language was
known to Maya scribes many centuries earlier. In this
presentation I offer several examples of spellings of
words that "should not be there."

BIO: Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley

Professor, Department of Native American Studies, UC
Davis

Research Interests: Native American language
revitalization, Mesoamerican scripts.

Recent publications related to this presentation:

2003 Macri, Martha J. and Matthew Looper. Nahua in
Ancient Mesoamerica : Evidence from Maya Inscriptions.
Ancient Mesoamerica 14:285-298.

2003 with Matthew Looper. A New Catalog of Maya
Hieroglyphs: Volume 1. The Classic Inscriptions.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press.

2006 Nahua Loanwords from the Early Classic: Words for
Cacao Preparation on a Río Azul Ceramic Vessel.
Ancient Mesoamerica 16:321-326.

Submitted. Macri, Martha J. Las lenguas de Mesoamérica
antigua: ¿Qué es posible saber? In Mesa Redonda
Olmeca: Balance y Perspectivas. Rebecca Gonzalez Lauk
y Maria Teresa Uriarte, editors. Instituto Nacional de
Anthropología e Historia, Mexico , D. F. [Title and
editor(s)' name may yet be modified.]

Submitted. Macri, Martha J. Palabras Prestadas del
Nahua en Los Códices Mayas. Presented at the Congreso
Internacional de Cultura Maya in the session Religion
and Ideology in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. In
Memorias del II Congreso Internacional de Cultura
Maya. Alfredo Barrera Rubio y Ruth Gubler, editors.
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Mérida,
Yucatán. [Title and editor(s)' name may yet be
modified.]

Submitted. With Gabrielle Vail. A New Catalog of Maya
Hieroglyphs: Volume 2. The Codices.



 
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