People seem to be settling on calling Elon Musk's social media dumpster fire "Xitter". I study classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and in the Spanish transliteration of that language, "x" is provided "sh" (so e.g. "xochitl" is approximately "SHOH-cheet"). It seems to me that this pronunciation is quite appropriate for use in "Xitter". Tezcatlipoca would approve. 🙃

#XitterIsPronouncedShitter #nahuatl

@histodons @poetry

For context, here is the section on the #book comparing #mesoamerica verse and #western ones.

Maybe my personal confusion comes from the difference in #symbolism and the translator's own interpretation.

I would need to find my #nahuatl dictionary and try translating it myself some time as practice.

As a side note, ometeotl and omeyocan are something from leon portilla, and are interpretations questioned by newer sources but still show up from time to time. (2/2)

Hipersomnia en #Náhuatl

While the #Mexica didn't have specific words for trans people, they did have words for people who transgressed gender norms.

Xochihuah: "flower-bearer", for both sexes.

Patlache: the precise meaning is uncertain, but encompasses a complex of intersexuality, trans masculinity, and female queerness.

Cuiloni: from cui, "to take". Likely referred to passive/receptive male partners in homosexual encounters.

Nowadays, these words have been reclaimed! #Pride #TransRights #chicano #xicano #Nahuatl

Marc Thouvenot es un pionero de las humanidades digitales aplicadas a los documentos de habla náhuatl. Ha coordinado desde varias décadas la producción de herramientas y aplicaciones que han facilitado nuestras labores de investigadores.

Descarguen libremente el texto siguiente y explorenlo de manera interactiva.

#digitahumanities #nahuatl #mexico #books

https://historicas.unam.mx/comunicacion_publica/debates_herramientas/libros_pdf/herramientas_digitales_para_estudiar_la_cultura_nahuatl.html

acabo de agregar capturas de pantalla de #keepassXC en #macOS para habilitar #nahuatl para generación de #contraseñas https://github.com/carlosm2/lista-nahuatl#pasos-para-agregar-idioma-nahuatl-en-macos

acabo de agregar capturas de pantalla de #keepassXC en #macOS para habilitar #nahuatl para generación de #contraseñas https://github.com/carlosm2/lista-nahuatl/edit/main/README.md#pasos-para-agregar-idioma-nahuatl-en-macos

#History

The arrival of the Europeans in 1519 was devastating for the indigenous population in what is now #Mexico, since they brought with them viruses unknown in the Americas.

In 1520, smallpox contributed to the fall of #Tenochtitlan and 2 major outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever (“cocoliztli” or “pestilence” in #Nahuatl language) in 1545 and 1576, wiped out large parts of the original population.

From the app. 15 Mio. inhabitants of ancient Mexico in 1519, only 2 mio. were left by 1578.

#History #Architecture #Museums #Mexico

Chapultepec Castle, in downtown #MexicoCity is the only authentic royal palace in #NorthAmerica. Built in 1785 on top of the Chapultepec (Grasshopper Hill in #Nahuatl), it was the official residence of Maximilian of Habsburg, the failed Emperor of Mexico (1864-1867). It now houses the wonderful #Mexican National Museum of History.

The conversations here around the risks of storing information and community knowledge on for-profit social media platforms that were never designed to be such had me thinking about what more I can do to safeguard the knowledge my tiny online #mexicayotl community has put together.

So I made a wiki: http://amoxtli.teochan.org/

#pagan #polytheism #chicano #Chicanospirituality #huehuemexicayotl #MexicanAmerican #nahuatl #Mexica #Indigenous

@linguistics @languagelovers #languages

The moribund Pipil (endonym: Na:wat) of El Salvador is the only and southernmost surviving Nahua language of the Uto-Aztec family, closely related to other Nahua varieties that are still spoken in #Mexico. The following chart presents a comparison of some common vocabulary between Classical #Nahuatl (the lingua franca of the Mexica – “Aztec” - Empire, before the arrival of the Europeans) and Pipil of the town of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, #ElSalvador.

The tiny teporingo (Romerolagus diazi) or volcano rabbit is endemic to the slopes of four volcanoes in Central #Mexico. It normally lives above 2,800 mts., close to the fields of a sort of volcano grass called “zacatón”. In #MexicanSpanish they are also called “zacatuche”, a word derived from #Nahuatl (“Aztec” language) “zacatochtli”, meaning “grass rabbit”. Unfortunately the teporingo is an endangered species due to overgrazing and fragmentation of its habitat.

#NatureConservation

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Download the entire book here: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/332

A special thanks to the COLING MSCA RISE project for support, Sebastian Nordhoff, and the series editors Isabelle Léglise and Stefano Manfredi @langscipress

#Minorities #Nahuatl #Aymara #Quechua #Greko #Griko #Frisian #Frysk #Wymysorys #Yiddish

Greetings in #nahuatl
Due to the high cultural diversity in the #indigenous people, the meaning of "hello" may vary. Pialli is a very common used word to greet, also Panoltzin which is literally translated as 'I pass near you' and a more respectuos way of greet is changed to Panoltzintinoh. Finally, there are numerous ways to greet, in some regions Panolti chicawatica is a common and formal greet. Ken Timopilia is translated as 'how do you feel yourself?' and is also used. #learnnahuatl #mexico

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#romance #timetravel #mexicanamerican #speculative #mesoamerica #aztec #veracruz #zongolica #nahuatl

Tepoztotocalli is translated as Airport and combines three words: tepostl: iron or technological equipment; tototl: bird; calli: home; and is literally translated such as "home of the iron birds" and is commonly used to refer to airports. #nahuatl #learnnahuatl #mexico

I'm learning Nahuatl language, an indigenous language that is also called mexican. I'm sharing you some of my class notes to show you the beauty of the language and the poetic and fun way to arrange sentences. #nahuatl #indigenous #mexico

#Nahuatl micro-lesson 4.


With the plural endings -h & -tin, there can ALSO be "reduplication," a repetition of the first consonant & vowel of the word.

-teotl (god, divine energy, supernatural) teteoh (gods)

-coatl (snake) cocoah

-coyotl (coyote) cocoyoh

-tochtli (rabbit) totochtin

-pilli (child, noble) pipiltin

Note: the "h" represents a glottal stop (hitch in the throat, like at the end of the 1st syllable of "uh-oh").

#language #Indigenous #Mesoamerica #linguistics #grammar #lesson

#Nahuatl

Ma paqui in yancuic xihuitl!

#Spanish

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Putting together a #xiuhpohualli resource for teochan.org this morning, and discovering that there are a few common translations of cempoalhuitl ("month") names that make NO sense!

#Tititl, for instance, is constantly said to mean "stretching", or on the other hand, "shrinking". But "titi-" actually means "belly". Another one is #Izcalli, which is commonly reported to mean "rebirth". There's no attestation for it; "iz" means "here" while "calli" is "house"!

#nahuatl #Chicano #Huehuemexicayotl