Re: Language Naming

At 11:33 on 22.1.1999, Hawksinger wrote:

> Nahuatl is from a root variously translated as 'audible, clear,
> intelligible, speaking clearly' (the last of which gave rise to my
> own Feorran meaning the same'.)  The speakers of Nahuatl whom most
> people know as Aztecs, called themselves "Mexihca" [meSi?ka] (hence
> Mexico) of unknown etymology.  Aztec itself means people from Aztlan,
> the land of the seven caves somewhere to the north.  Thus most of the
> Nahuatl speaking peoples of the Valle Central were Aztecs including some
> who were enemies of the Mexihca.
> --
Um, does the orthography often use "h" for [?] as in "Mexihca"?  Cool!

B-P>


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