Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time by Justyna Olko

Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time by Justyna Olko

Drawing on an extensive source base spanning five hundred years, from the first half of the sixteenth century to the present, this is the first comprehensive, data-driven study of both historical and modern varieties of Nahuatl, a major Indigenous language spoken in North America. Employing multidisciplinary methods and a diachronic perspective, it identifies the key social, cultural, and linguistic factors that have interacted to motivate language change and the evolution of the social and cultural ecologies of the Indigenous communities in today's multilingual and multiethnic Mexico. It provides a critical enrichment of Western theories of contact-induced language change, continuity, acculturation, and resilience, paving the way for new relational methods of studying these complex phenomena across time and space. It is essential reading for researchers in contact linguistics, historical and synchronic sociolinguistics, Hispanic and Latin American studies, and linguistic typology. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Justyna Olko is a Researcher and Professor at the University of Warsaw. Recipient of two European Research Council grants and a 2020 winner of the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year. Her notable publications include Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World (University Press of Colorado, 2014) and Revitalizing Endangered Languages (co-edited with Sallabank, CUP, 2021). John Sullivan is Professor Emeritus at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, an Instructor at the University of Warsaw, and an Associate Instructor at the University of Utah. He co-founded in 2001 the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas. He was a Guggenheim fellow (2007). Robert Borges is a Research Engineer and a Researcher in the Department of Statistics at Uppsala University. In linguistics, he specializes in language contact and multilingualism, and as a research engineer, he works with large textual corpora and questions surrounding sustainability in empirical research.

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ISBN 13	9781009215664
Title	Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time
Author	Justyna Olko
Series	Cambridge Approaches To Language Contact
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2026-11-30
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