Nahuatlan

The distribution of Uto-Aztecan, a general family of languages, extends from the Aztecan or Nahuatlan languages in central Mexico to Hopi in Arizona and Southern Californian Shoshonean, among many others.

Aztec, Mexica, or Alien? 2008

The distribution of Uto-Aztecan, a general family of languages, extends from the Aztecan or Nahuatlan languages in central Mexico to Hopi in Arizona and Southern Californian Shoshonean, among many others.

Aztec, Mexica, or Alien? 2008

These, however, are grouped into some twelve or more linguistic families, among whom may be mentioned in order of their numerical importance the Nahuatlan, Otomian, Zapotecan, Mayan,

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

(Honduras); * Nahuatlan Shoshonian (Mexico, etc.); Olivean

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Several Nahuatlan words have been forgotten, and in making out my list of collections I had great difficulty in getting designations for some of the objects, for instance the word for "quiver," and for the curious rattling anklets used by dancers.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

Spanish writings give us a fair collection of the Nahuatlan myths of

Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868

Shoshonean family 108-110 regarded by Buschmann as identical with Nahuatlan 140

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Buschmann, Johann C. E., linguistic literature 18, 19 on the Kiowa language 84 on the Pima language 99 on Shoshonean families 109 regards Shoshonean and Nahuatlan families as one 140

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Our name, jicama, comes from the Nahuatlan Indian xicama, which means "edible storage root."

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