Classical Nahuatl Sources

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LeCiagoPanda
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Classical Nahuatl Sources

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I'm trying to learn Classical Nahuatl and I've already used the "Inadequate Nahuatl Lessons" online, and I have "An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl" by Michel Launey. These are both useful, however I'm constantly confused by what word order to use, and whether or not to include an "optional" particle in a sentence. I want to speak the language and sound as the Aztecs would have, but I can't figure out what word orders and what particles would sound more "normal" most of the time. Different sources also seem to disagree about when to use the particles "ca" and "in", and It would be nice if I could find full texts rather than short examples, texts which specifically target certain grammatical nuances and constructions. Other books/sites(preferably free, but not necessarily) for learning Classical Nahuatl would also be appreciated, to get yet another perspective on the grammar. Any ideas?
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Re: Classical Nahuatl Sources

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Nahuatl as Written is supposed to be pretty good.

EDIT: Here are the grammars I currently have.
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It's a while since I looked into this, and you've probably already found the main resources. There are however several grammars etc. of the modern dialects, which honestly don't look too different, give or take the occasional Spanish loan. Though IIRC they're all in Spanish ...

Edit: checking the sources of some of the stuff I've still got ;

http://anthro.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/nahuatl/nahuatl.html
(includes a 20p pdf grammar summary)

www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/Mecayapan.pdf

http://jupiter.plymouth.edu/~wjt/Nahuatl/Nahuatl1.pdf
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