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Nezahualcoyotl (Classical Nahuatl: Nezahualcoyōtl [nesawalˈkojoːtɬ], modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ), "Fasting Coyote" [1] (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a scholar, philosopher , warrior, architect, poet and ruler of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico.
David Bowles crafted English verse versions of select songs from the Romances in his Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry, released in 2013 by Lamar University Press. [3] Bowles is now releasing annotated English translations with normalized Nahuatl texts on Medium under the title Songs of the Lords of Anahuac. [4]
Nahuatl literature encompasses a diverse array of genres and styles, the documents themselves composed under many different circumstances. Preconquest Nahua had a distinction between tlahtolli 'speech' and second cuicatl 'song', akin to the distinction between prose and poetry. [151] [152] Nahuatl tlahtolli prose has been preserved in different ...
The Cantares Mexicanos is a manuscript collection of Nahuatl songs or poems recorded in the 16th century. The 91 songs of the Cantares form the largest Nahuatl song collection, containing over half of all known traditional Nahuatl songs.
The neoclassical spelling of Nahuatl provides a full written representation of all phonologically relevant facts. It is employed in two central reference tools in modern Nahuatl studies, Andrews' Introduction to Classical Nahuatl (1975, revised edition 2003), and Karttunen's Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (1983). It is also often used for the ...
Nahuatl literature — Mesoamerican historical documents, in the Nahuatl language of central Mexico. ... Nahuatl poetry (1 C, 2 P) W. Nahuatl-language writers (11 P)
Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Latin Alphabet), is a set of variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua franca at the time of the 16th-century ...
Nahuatl-language poets (15 P) Pages in category "Nahuatl poetry" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.