Western Peripheral Nahuatl

Western Peripheral Nahuatl
Geographic distribution	Puebla, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, El Salvador
Linguistic classification	Uto-Aztecan Aztecan (Nahuan) Nahuatl Western Peripheral Nahuatl
Subdivisions	Durango–Nayarit West Coast Western Mexico State Pochutec
Language codes
Glottolog	west2814  (mostly a match)

Western Peripheral Nahuatl is a group of Nahuatl languages of Western Mexico. They are: ^[1]

• Michoacán a.k.a. Pómaro Nahuatl on the west coast
• Coatepec and Temascaltepec Nahuatl of western México State and northwestern Guerrero
• Colima–Durango: Mexicanero and extinct dialects of Colima
• Jalisco-Nayarit: extinct, formerly spoken in Cuautitlán de García Barragán

Pochutec may belong here. ^{[2] [3]}

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. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Western Periphery-North Guerrero Nahuatl". Glottolog 4.3.
3. Hansen, Magnus Pharao. "What Happened When? Relative Chronology and the state of pre-Nahuan in the Classic Period."