Pochutec Language

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pochutec is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuan (or Aztecan) branch which was spoken in and around the town of Pochutla on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1917 it was documented in a monograph by Franz Boas, who considered the language nearly extinct. In the 1970s another investigator found two speakers around Pochutla who still remembered a few of the words recorded by Boas. For much of the 20th century, Uto-Aztecanists disagreed among themselves as to the classification of Pochutec within the Aztecan branch. Although the majority thought it likely that Pochutec and Nahuatl were to be considered as belonging to separate branches of Nahuan (or Aztecan, as it was then called), Hasler proposed the opposite. The majority view classifying Pochutec outside of Nahuatl was bolstered in 1978 when Campbell and Langacker published a paper in which they adduced new arguments relying on the data of Boas

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