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Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana

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Country
  
Mexico/France

Publisher
  
Imprimerie Nationale

Originally published
  
1875

Genre
  
Grammar

Language
  
Spanish

Publication date
  
1875

Author
  
Andrés de Olmos

Subject
  
Nahuatl

Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana

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The Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana is a grammar of the Nahuatl language in Spanish by Andrés de Olmos. It was written in Mexico in 1547, but remained in manuscript form until 1875, when it was published in Paris by Rémi Siméon under the title Grammaire de la langue nahuatl ou mexicaine. Olmos' Arte is the earliest known Nahuatl grammar.

As with usual Nahuatl orthography, Olmos did not write glottal stops (saltillos), or distinguish vowel length. He was, however, almost unique in distinguishing the voiced and voiceless allophones of /l/, writing [ɬ] as lh.

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Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana Wikipedia