Huasteca Nahuatl Puns

-large collection of vocabulary flash cards: https://app.memrise.com/course/798948/an-introduction-to-huasteca-nahuatl/

-„nahuatl grammar sketches part 2“ with a chapter on huasteca nahuatl: https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/47/26/65/47266563262242678149396571357053294485/15362.pdf

-Great online language course: https://tlahtolli.coerll.utexas.edu/

-long Youtube course (with a google drive folder with the slides and „homework“ in the videos descriptions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1sf3G2v6hw&list=PLQ64X_2eA2uWbOD8e8cGvHCCIdmzRLLDG

-New and growing course by the author of a Huasteca Nahuatl dictionary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmo0nHRY-s0&list=PLJflE_grM4FbgjD3Iv8wAJDwSqw2ZTTLh

-Bible in Huasteca Nahuatl: http://live.bible.is/bible/nhetbl/GEN/1

If you‘ve got any others - drop them down in the comments!

What's the words for a fox, and spirit in both Classical Nahuatl and Huasteca Nahuatl? I come across different words and unsure which is correct. Also, for a name, how could Spirit Of Fox be combined into a single word? Or Flaming Fox into a single word? Much gratitude for any input.

I want to but Yan Garcia book, but I see that it's mostly about "Huastecan Nahuatl". I know that there is a lot of Nahuatl dialects, but is there any "official" version, like Modern Standard Arabic for Arabic language? If yes, is Huastecan dialect much different from "classic" Nahuatl and which dialect is closest to Nahuatl used by pre-conquest Mexica people?

Hi Guys,
I am new to reddit and I just have a question. I am currently a recruiter for a company and two of our projects needs native Huasteca Nahuatl Speakers. To be very honest, this is quite challenging as I have tried all the available job sites out there including Linkedin and Jora but I still haven't found possible candidates who possesses this qualification. The thing is not only we need native speakers of the Nahuatl language but the candidate must also be fluent to English. Is there anyone out there nice enough to give me suggestions and recommentions on where to look for these lovely Nahuatl native speakers ? I am open for any advice, recommendations and suggestions. Thank you so much in advance.

Does anyone have any songs or other media in Huasteca Nahuatl they would suggest? That's the dialect of Nahuatl I'm studying. Thanks!

https://ibb.co/8P86cM4

I am manually imputting this new Huasteca Nahuatl dictionary my Nahuatl teacher shared with me into Anki and have 2 questions about the pronunciation and definitions.

1. All of the verbs so far have ended with the expression "after all." Is that an important part of the definition or is that a mistake?

2. The words beginning with double A's, do you pronounce both A sounds?

So if you look at the screenshot: The word "aahwia" is that pronounced ah-ah-wee-ah?

Tlazohcamati huel miac anyone that can help!

https://tinycards.duolingo.com/decks/2CMQ2ho3/fruits-vegetables-nahuatl-frutas-verduras-nahuatl

Nochi kuali? Tlen inquichihuaj? Nimomachtia Nahuatl tlen la Huasteca. Nijneki nizanilos huanya imojuanti ika Nahuatlajtoli

!Xóõ !Xun (Ekoka) //Ani /Xam A-Pucikwar A-Pucikwar Aari Aariya Aasáx Abau Abaza Abenaki (Western) Abidji Abipón Abipón Abkhaz Abui Abun Acaxee Acehnese Achagua Achang Aché Achí Acholi Achuar Achumawi Acoma Acroá Adai Adamorobe Sign Language Adang Adioukrou Adithinngithigh Adjuvilo Adyghe (Abzakh) Adyghe (Shapsugh) Adyghe (Temirgoy) Adynyamathanha Adzera Aekyom Aequian Afrihili Afrikaans Agarabi Agavotaguerra Aghem Aghu Aghu Tharnggala Aghul Agta (Central) Agta (Dupaningan) Aguacatec Aguaruna Ahom Ahtna Aikaná Ainu Aizi Aja Ajagbe Ajawa Ajië Aka Aka-Bea Aka-Biada Aka-Bo Aka-Cari Aka-Cari Aka-Jeru Aka-Kede Aka-Kede Aka-Kol Aka-Kora Akan Akar-Bale Akawaio Akha Akhvakh Akkadian Akkala Sami Aklanon Akwa Ala'ala Alabama Alagwa Alamblak Alanic Alas Alawa Albanian Aleut Aleut (Eastern) Algonquin Alladian Allentiac Alngith Alsatian Alsea Alsea Altai (Southern) Alune Alutiiq Alutor Alyawarra Ama Amahuaca Amanab Amanayé Amara Amarakaeri Ambae (Lolovoli Northeast) Ambai Ambulas Amdo Amdo (Themchen) Amele American Sign Language Amharic Amis Ammonite Amo Ampeeli Amuesha Amuzgo Anamuxra Ancient Cappadocian Ancient Macedonian Andi Andoa Andoke Andoquero Anejom Anêm Angaataha Angami Angas Anggor Angolar Anguthimri Anindilyakwa Anong Antrim dialect, Irish Anufo Anyi Anywa Ao Apache (Chiricahua) Apache (Jicarilla) Apache (Western) Apalachee Apalaí Apatani Apiaká Apinayé Apurinã Arabana Arabela Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Bani-Hassan) Arabic (Beirut) Arabic (Borno Nigerian) Arabic (Chadian) Arabic (Eastern Libyan) Arabic (Egyptian) Arabic (Gulf) Arabic (Hijazi) Arabic (Iraqi) Arabic (Kormakiti) Arabic (Kuwaiti) Arabic (Lebanese) Arabic (Modern Standard) Arabic (Moroccan) Arabic (Negev) Arabic (North Levantine Spoken) Arabic (Palestinian) Arabic (San'ani) Arabic (Syrian) Arabic (Tunisian) Arakanese (Marma) Araki Aralle-Tabulahan Arandai Araona Arapaho Arapesh (Abu) Arapesh (Mountain) Aravirá Arawak Arbore Arcaicam Esperantom Archi Are'are Areba Aribwatsa Aribwatsa Aribwatsa Arikara Arikem Arin Armenian (Eastern) Armenian (Iranian) Armenian (Western) Arop-Lokep Arosi Arrernte Arrernte (Mparntwe) Arrernte (Western) Arritinngithigh Aruá Asmat Assamese Assan Asturian Asuriní Atacameño Atakapa Atakapa Atampaya Atayal Atchin Athpare Atikamekw Atlantean Atsugewi Atsugewi Attempto Controlled English Au Aulua Auregnais Auslan Auyana Avar Avatime Avestan Avikam Avokaya Awa Awa Pit Awabakal Awadhi Awngi Awtuw Awyi Ayabadhu Ayiwo Aymara (Central) Aynu Ayomán Ayoreo Azari (Iranian) Azerbaijan

I was excited to find a pretty comprehensive book called "An introduction to Classical Nahuatl" - if my goal is just to learn it out of interest in indigenous American history, but also to chat to Nahuatl speakers one day, is a book like that useful? Should I just move to some more colloquial book? Is 'classical' Nahuatl really very different to modern? Thank you so much in advance.

Anyone mind sharing some links to some good sources from which to learn nahuatl; books, websites, youtube channels, anything really. TIA!

I know its probably been mentioned in this subreddit many times. But how is Nahuatl supposed to be written? (I my self am learning Huasteca Variant if its relevent?)

Also, I'd love to see y'alls Handwriting! Maybe we could do submissions if the Mods would like to set up a little community "challenge". I think that would spark some inspiration for some great work!

14th of January, 1947

The Secretariat of the Foreign Affairs is very concerned with the level of unemployment suffered by the indigenous people the La Huasteca. The Secretariat is therefore pleased to announce that, starting today, a new program to employ indigenous individuals is starting up. Those who are bilingual in their indigenous tongue and the Spanish language and have achieved an acceptable level of literacy may qualify!

>!The Secretariat of the Interior determined that Mexico's lack of a true intelligence agency has seriously hampered its ability to move information around. A lack of a true cryptology department has necessitated an alternative strategy for keeping Mexican secrets secret. However, Mexico does have a major asset: a myriad of indigenous languages, most of which don't have any native speakers outside of Mexico and many of which belong to language families with no relatives outside of Mexico. Two languages have been selected to explore the uses of this: Huasteca Nahuatl and Wastek. Both languages have thousands of speakers and are found in the same region, making the effort of hiring them much easier. Speakers of both languages are being sent to every Mexican embassy, with emphasis being placed on sending them to nations with existing Parlante cells. The hope is that these brave men and women can be used to send messages back to the Mexican government in their native tongue with no worry, at least at first, of being overheard.!<

When dipping their toes into the fractured world of learning Nahuatl, many people fall under the impression that variants may be unintelligible from each other—and from Classical Nahuatl as well. In my opinion this is a bit of an exaggeration. While there are differences, they tend to be comprehensible, predictable, and not as divisive as they initially seem.

The following are some sentences pulled from 16th century native-produced documents in Classical Nahuatl. They are simple, sure, but quite standard. A group of modern native speakers from various regions gave me their versions in a most natural phrasing. I did not share with them the Classical versions until after they provided me with theirs. I normalized the spelling too, since that doesn’t affect the underlying grammar:

Yellow maize and beans are my food:

1. Tlayolli etl in notlakual. (Classical)
2. Tlayoli uan yetl notlakual. (Modern Central)
3. Tlayojli uan yetl notlakual. (Modern Guerrero)
4. Tlayolli uan etl notlakual. (Modern Huasteca)

Apolonia is the wife of Francisco:

1. Apolonia in isiuau Francisco. (Classical)
2. Francisco isiua Apolonia. (Modern Central)
3. Francisco isiuauj Apolonia. (Modern Guerrero)
4. Francisco isiuau Apolonia. (Modern Huasteca)

Our mother and father give us their land:

1. Tonan totaj techmakaj itlal. (Classical)
2. Tonan uan totaj techmakaj itlal. (Modern Central)
3. Tonan uan totaj techmakaj itlal. (Modern Guerrero)
4. Tonanan uan totataj techmakaj intlal. (Modern Huasteca)

So already we can see one major difference between historical and modern varieties: Classical Nahuatl prefers unmarked conjunction. In other words, there was no need to write “and” between two nouns that went together. You just said them together and it was understood there was an “and” between them. Modern varieties prefer to overtly mark the conjunction, much like in English and Spanish, and they typically use either “uan” or “iuan” for that function.

Additionally, while these particular examples don’t stress word-order difference too much, scholars have noticed that modern varieties prefer a word-order of Subject>Verb>Object whereas historically Verb>Subject>Object was preferred. That being said, word-order is quite free in all varieties so this isn’t as divisive as it would be in Indo-European languages which do have rather fixed word-orders.

To be sure, some vocabulary will be different. Like I mentioned in another post, this is a feature all language d

Hi everyone, I am a beginner learning huasteca Nahuatl, and I am an anthropology student doing a participant observation study on Nahuatl, specifically learners and teachers of the language. I have some questions:

Where in the world are you from?

why are you learning Nahuatl?

Thanks everyone!

¡Hola todos! Soy un estudiante en los Estados Unidos aprendiendo huasteca Nahuatl. Estoy enfocado de antropología y estoy haciendo una investigacion de el idioma, especificamente a gente pricipiantes y profesores que enseñan el idioma. Les tengo unas preguntas:

¿De donde eres?

¿Porque estudias el idioma?

¡Gracias todos!

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)