Identification and diffusion of synchronous nahuatl loanwords in chronicle texts from the 16th and 17th centuries

Studies on indigenous borrowing in the current Pan-Hispanic vocabulary lack general research that identifies which words are the antecedents of the current ones, and what was their differentiated diffusion of appearance in the documents of the 16th and 17th centuries. In this study, with a preferably quantitative methodology, 276 nahuatlisms with different degrees of frequency are identified through a selection of 40 chronistic works from the golden centuries. These publications belong to different geographical areas. The results of their documentary expurgation present a panoramic systematic review of the use of these voices. Aztec voices are more novel during the 500s, but their diffusion is continuous in both centuries, and not only in the chronicles of the Mesoamerican areas.

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