Mexico: The Conjugations Of Colonial Otomi

Mexico: The Conjugations Of Colonial Otomi   Enrique L. Palancar, 2012   Pedro de Cárceres, a Spanish friar from New Spain (Mexico), wrote the first grammar of Otomi (Oto-Pamean, Oto-Manguean) in 1580. The stage of the Otomi language reflected in Cárceres is called ‘Colonial Otomi’ (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). Later, dialectal diversification gave rise to a family of different languages. Cárceres describes Colonial Otomi as having two verb conjugations. However, modern...

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