Mexican Languages Collection of Yolanda Lastra

Colección de Lenguas Mexicanas de Yolanda Lastra

Collection Language	Otomí, Ixtenco Nahuatl Nahuatl, Central Nahuatl, Central Huasteca Nahuatl, Huaxcaleca Nahuatl, Morelos Nahuatl, Central Puebla Nahuatl, Northern Puebla Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla Otomí Quechua, South Bolivian
Language PID	ailla:119506 ailla:119659 ailla:119512 ailla:119660 ailla:119664 ailla:119658 ailla:119662 ailla:119661 ailla:119663 ailla:119711 ailla:119707
Title [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Title
Title	Mexican Languages Collection of Yolanda Lastra
Country(ies)	Mexico Bolivia
Collector(s)	Lastra, Yolanda
Depositor(s)	Lastra, Yolanda
Project/Collector Website
Description [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Description
Description	This collection consists of recordings made by Dra. Lastra from 1959 to the present day of Mesoamerican languages in the Nahuatl and Otomí language families. The preservation of this collection was supported by the grant PD-50003-06 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
References	Lastra, Yolanda. (2000). "An Otomí story of a nahual." In Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer, eds., Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 13-21.

: Endangered languages in Mexico; En: Convergencia e Individualidad: Las lenguas Mayas entre hispanización e indigenismo. Editado por Andreas Koechert y Thomas Stolz. 1998. Hannover Verlag für Ethnologie., En: Convergencia e Individualidad: Las lenguas Mayas entre hispanización e indigenismo. Editado por Andreas Koechert y Thomas Stolz. 1998. Hannover Verlag für Ethnologie.

: Otomí language shift and some recent efforts to reverse it; In: Can Threatened Languages be Saved? Reversing Language Shift Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective. Joshua A. Fishman, ed. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters., In: Can Threatened Languages be Saved? Reversing Language Shift Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective. Joshua A. Fishman, ed. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters.