Mexican Languages Collection of Yolanda Lastra

Colección de Lenguas Mexicanas de Yolanda Lastra

Object Details

Collection LanguageOtomí, 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 PIDailla: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
TitleMexican 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
DescriptionThis 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.
ReferencesLastra, 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.

Pages

AILLA Administrative Documents - Lastra
Bibliography., Bibliografía.
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.

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