Re: Language Naming
| From: | Hawksinger <hawksinger@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 23, 1999, 23:10 |
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BP.Jonsson wrote:
> BTW: I've seen spellings of Nahuatl (? at least Mexican-Americ) words using
> Basque-like digraphs {tz} {tx}. Would you know anything about it?
>
<tz> is used to indicate the [ts] africate,/c/ in Americanist practice.
I haven't seen <tx> in Nahuatl words but I believe it shows up in
Totonacan and Mixe-Zoquean lgs (I don't work with either and will be
happy to be corrected as necessary).
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