Tri-dialectical VocabularyTri-Dialectical Vocabulary








Joe Campbell describes the way the Tri-dialectical vocabulary was devised:


  " During the summer Alberto Zepeda Serrano [native Nahuatl speaker and 
  informant for Campbell] and I used González Casanova's Cuentos Indígenas for 
  reading text and question and answer practice. Of course, it would be handy to 
  have alphabetical vocabulary accessible -- even tailor-made for each story, 
  any cluster of two or three, or the whole anthology. That we did, with an old 
  program from 1989 and the glosses that I inserted after Alberto and I did that 
  first Institute. But this summer pointed up the need for all materials to be 
  tri-lingual. The glosses need to be both Spanish and English. So I updated the 
  program to handle a Spanish gloss field. When I first got back from Chicago, I 
  started to do the long job -- insert the necessary Spanish glosses in the 
  "beehive" text format."
  "Then I decided to extend the database to include Librado Silva Galeana's 
  Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl texts (which I have been admiring in their attempt 
  to preserve both language and culture and give us some literature at the same 
  time) and Doña Luz' autobiography. So the sample vocabulary extraction 
  contains San Miguel Canoa [smc], Santa Ana Tlacotenco [satl], and Milpa Alta 
  [ma]. I also intend to eventually mark all words for prefixes, so that they 
  will list alphabetically grouped under their proper stems -- so are already 
  done like this."
  "Note: this is assembled from all the marked *tokens* thoughout the text and 
  the program avoids what repetition it can in a simple-minded way -- by 
  deleting *literal* repetitions, but not partial ones."
Although the main Vocabulary is organized according to either Spanish or Nahuatl 
words, there is a English - Nahuatl version which was prepared by Anthony 
Appelyard. 

You may access these materials through the following links:







      Spanish to Nahuatl 
      Nahuatl to Spanish 
      English to Nahuatl 




ASCII versions of these three files are also available:







      Spanish to Nahuatl ASCII 
      Nahuatl to Spanish ASCII 
      English to Nahuatl ASCII 




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