Uto-Aztecan languages

North American language family

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2018
Nahuatl
Nahua peoples from 16 states in Mexico began collaborating with INALI to create a new modern Nahuatl orthography designed to become the standardized writing system in the coming years.
2011 Ongoing academic debate continues about accepting the proposed split between Northern and Southern Uto-Aztecan languages.
2011
Nahuatl
Cambridge University Press publishes the English translation/adaptation of Michel Launey's Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated by Christopher Mackay.
2011
Nahuatl
Linguist Una Canger revises her earlier classification, suggesting that the central dialect area arose as an urban koiné language with features from both Western and Eastern dialect areas.

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