Morelos Nahuatl

Morelos Nahuatl
Morelos Nahuatl
Native to	Mexico
Region	Morelos
Native speakers	(19,000 cited 2000 census)
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Aztecan (Nahuan) Nahuatl Central Nahuatl Nuclear Morelos Nahuatl; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nhm
Glottolog	more1259

Last updated February 07, 2025

Morelos Nahuatl includes varieties of the Nahuatl language that are spoken in the state of Morelos, Mexico. In Morelos, Nahuatl is spoken in the communities of Cuentepec, Hueyapan, Santa Catarina, Xoxocotla, Atlacholoayan and Tetelcingo. But Tetelcingo Nahuatl is usually considered a separate variety due to its highly innovative phonology, and has very low mutual intelligibility with the other Morelos variants. Ethnologue also considers the varieties of San Felipe Tocla and Alpanocan to belong to the Morelos Nahuatl group of dialects although they are located in the state of Puebla.^[2] The dialects belong to the Central dialects closely related to Classical Nahuatl.^[3]

Phonology

The following description is that of the Santa Catarina Morelos dialect:^[4]

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Glottal
	Labial	central	lateral	Palatal	plain	labial	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p	t			k	kʷ
Affricate		ts	tɬ	tʃ
Fricative		s		ʃ			h
Approximant			l	j		w

/n/ can be heard as [ŋ] when before velar consonants.

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i iː
Mid	e eː	o oː
Low	a aː

References

↑ Morelos Nahuatl at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (online version) (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097 . Retrieved 2006-12-06.
↑ Canger, Una (1988). "Nahuatl dialectology: A survey and some suggestions". International Journal of American Linguistics . 54 (1). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 28–72. doi:10.1086/466074. OCLC 1753556.
↑ Betancourt, Ignacio Guzmán (2020). Gramática del Náhuatl de Santa Catarina, Morelos. México : Secretaría de Educación Pública, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

External links

Morelos Nahuatl at SIL-MX
Morelos Nahuatl alphabet
Founding of Cuentepec in Nahuatl, in English

Dakin, Karen and Ryesky, Diana. 1990. Morelos Nahuatl Dialects: Hypotheses on their historical divisions. Morelos en una economia global. Proceedings of the Congress in Cocoyoc, Morelos, November 19023, 1989. Submitted in January 1990
Barrios E., M. 1949. Textos de Hueyapan, Morelos. Tlalocan 3:53-75.
Johansson, Patrick, Johansson, Patrick. 1989. El sistema de expression reverencial en Hueyapan, Morelos. Tlalocan XI. 149-162
Pharao Hansen, Magnus (2010). "Polysynthesis in Hueyapan Nahuatl: The Status of Noun Phrases, Basic Word Order, and Other Concerns" (PDF). Anthropological Linguistics. 52 (3). University of Nebraska Press: 274–299. doi:10.1353/anl.2010.0017.
Pequeño diccionario ilustrado; Náhuatl de Cuentepec, Morelos. 2005. 1st ed. Tlalpan, D.F. Mexico: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 32 pages

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[e18-1] Morelos Nahuatl at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (online version) (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097 . Retrieved 2006-12-06.

[3] Canger, Una (1988). "Nahuatl dialectology: A survey and some suggestions". International Journal of American Linguistics . 54 (1). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 28–72. doi:10.1086/466074. OCLC 1753556.

[4] Betancourt, Ignacio Guzmán (2020). Gramática del Náhuatl de Santa Catarina, Morelos. México : Secretaría de Educación Pública, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

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