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
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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

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.