Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl

Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl is a group of Nahuatl languages, including the Pipil language of El Salvador and the Nahuatl dialects of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, southern Veracruz, and Tabasco (Isthmus dialects):

  • Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
  • ?Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl (Tehuacan–Zongolica)
  • Isthmus Nahuatl
  • Pipil and Tabasco Nahuatl (incl. extinct Chiapas Nahuatl?)
Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl
Geographic
distribution		Puebla, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, El Salvador
Linguistic classificationUto-Aztecan
  • Aztecan (Nahuan)
    • Nahuatl
      • Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl
Subdivisions
  • Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
  • ? Tehuacan-Zongolica Nahuatl
  • Isthmus Nahuatl
  • Pipil–Tabasco
GlottologNone

The boundaries of Eastern Nahuatl are not clear. Southeastern Puebla (Tehuacan-Zongolica) is particularly ambiguous. Hasler (1996:164) summarizes the situation,

"Juan Hasler (1958:338) interprets the presence in the region of [a mix of] eastern dialect features and central dialect features as an indication of a substratum of eastern Nahuatl and a superstratum of central Nahuatl. Una Canger (1980:15–20) classifies the region as part of the eastern area, while Yolanda Lastra (1986:189–190) classifies it as part of the central area."
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