Diachronic Study of Nahuatl, Preconquest to Modern
FAIN: FA-11812-77
Frances E. Karttunen
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)
To develop a comprehensive description of Nahuatl, the major native American language spoken in central Mexico, from a reconstruction of the language in the century "before the Spanish conquest down to the present, as the language is still spoken by approximately a million people.