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The Use(fulness) of Nauatl Dialects Spoken Today for the Study of Written Nauatl from the 16th and 17th Centuries

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Featuring Dr. Una Canger Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen.

Thursday, February 5, 2015
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM Haines Hall 144
(CSRC Library)
UCLA

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Thursday, February 5th

 10:30 am -12:00 pm
 How Polysynthetic is Nahuatl?
Professor Una Canger
 1:30 pm -3:00 pm
 The Nahuatl Language Text of the Codex Sierra, 1550-1564
Professor Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA) will examine the
Nahuatl-language text of a 62-page manuscript known as the
Codex Sierra, which was written in the Mixteca Alta region of
Oaxaca, Mexico. Dr, Canger will comment on the findings.

 

Cost: Free and open to the public

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Download File: unacanger2.4_5.15-kv-bf3.pdf

Sponsor(s): UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Linguistics Department, UCLA History Department, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, and UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies.