Tehuacan–Zongolica Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl is a variety of Nahuatl spoken by ethnic

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in southeastern Puebla state ( Tehuacan) and southern

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(

Zongolica Zongolica is a municipality located in the south zone in the State of Veracruz, about 100 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 63.34 km2. It is located at . The name comes from Nahuatl ''Tzontli-coliuhqui'' 'crafty hair'. ...

) in

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. Tehuacan–Zongolica has characteristics of both Central Nahuatl and

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 *?Southea ...

. Hasler (1996:164) summarizes the situation, :"Juan Hasler (1958:338) interprets the presence in the region of mix ofeastern 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

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(1986:189–190) classifies it as part of the central area."

References

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