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To: Philo-Junius
I've met a Catholic priest from Chiapas for whom Spanish is his second language--one of the Mayan languages is his mother tongue.

The Uto-Aztecans should go to Utah--see if they could communicate with the Utes by trying out some Nahuatl phrases on them.

26 posted on 02/24/2009 5:27:50 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

My understanding is that there is very little difference between Ute and the other dialects of the Nahuatl family. It’s just that the Utes are the only ones who wound up on the northern side of the border.


29 posted on 02/24/2009 5:33:04 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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