TY - CHAP
T1 - Words in Revolution
T2 - How the Nahuas Disappeared from the State of Morelos and from the Historiography of the Mexican Revolution
AU - Pharao Hansen, Magnus
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Today, the Nahuatl language is spoken in only a handful of towns in the Mexican state of Morelos by a population of some 15,000–20,000 people.¹ We know that at the arrival of the Spanish invaders in 1519, Nahuatl was the primary language spoken in the Morelos valley, which was probably inhabited by some 600,000–800,000 people (Smith 1994). But we do not really know much about the process that led to the disappearance of the Nahuatl language in Morelos. Accounts of the history of Indigenous culture and language in Mexico have tended to assume a slow and gradual process...
AB - Today, the Nahuatl language is spoken in only a handful of towns in the Mexican state of Morelos by a population of some 15,000–20,000 people.¹ We know that at the arrival of the Spanish invaders in 1519, Nahuatl was the primary language spoken in the Morelos valley, which was probably inhabited by some 600,000–800,000 people (Smith 1994). But we do not really know much about the process that led to the disappearance of the Nahuatl language in Morelos. Accounts of the history of Indigenous culture and language in Mexico have tended to assume a slow and gradual process...
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781646425778
T3 - IMS Culture and Society
SP - 115
EP - 132
BT - The Nahua
A2 - Brokaw, Galen
A2 - Garcia Loaeza, Pablo
PB - University Press of Colorado
ER -