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Pochutec is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuan (or Aztecan) branch which was spoken in and around the town of Pochutla
on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1917 it was documented in a monograph by Franz Boas, who considered the language
nearly extinct. In the 1970s another investigator found two speakers around Pochutla who still remembered a few of the words
recorded by Boas. For much of the 20th century, Uto-Aztecanists disagreed among themselves as to the classification of Pochutec
within the Aztecan branch. Although the majority thought it likely that Pochutec and Nahuatl were to be considered as belonging
to separate branches of Nahuan (or Aztecan, as it was then called), Hasler proposed the opposite. The majority view classifying
Pochutec outside of Nahuatl was bolstered in 1978 when Campbell and Langacker published a paper in which they adduced new
arguments relying on the data of Boas. Their conclusion has met with little if any rebuttal in the literature and become widely
accepted. The Aztecan branch (often called the Nahuan branch) of Uto-Aztecan thus consists of Pochutec and General Aztec,
the latter in turn consisting of Nahuatl and Pipil. Bartholomew (1980) suggests that some of the divergent traits, for example
last syllable stress, are due to influence from Chatino, an Oto-Manguean language. She argues that at the time of the 16th
century Spanish conquest of Mexico the settlement of Pochutla did not fall under the Aztec Empire's domain, but instead was
part of the Mixtec state centered at Tututepec. Thus, the Chatino linguistic influences stemmed from the trade and communication
routes between Pochutla and Tututepec passing through Chatino territory. |
Names (more)[en] Pochutec language[nl] Pochuteeks [no] Pochutekisk [es] Idioma pochuteco |
Language type : Extinct
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