Wednesday, May 30, 2012

In Necuepaliztli in Aztlan



RETORNO A AZTLAN es el primer largometraje de ficción que trata íntegramente sobre las leyendas inmemoriales de los aztecas del México precolombino (Juan Mora Catlett, 1991).

Filmada entre las ruinas de pirámides gigantescas y de magníficas obras de arte.

Hablan en NAHUATL, antigua lengua clásica de los mexicanos.

La historia se ubica en el siglo XV, antes de la conquista española y narra las peripecias de un viaje mágico a Aztlan -Lugar mítico de origen de los aztecas- realizado por los emisarios de su Señor, Moctecuzoma, y por un campesino humilde de nombre Ollin.

El objetivo del recorrido es acabar con una sequía terrible de cuatro años. Esto en un momento donde el mito y la magia se confunden con la realidad y la violencia extrema convive con la más alta sofisticación

La película se rodó en zonas arqueológicas y la música está hecha con instrumentos precolombinos originales. El guión fue desarrollado con una beca de la FUNDACION JOHN S. GUGGENHEIM y se basa en una investigación de cinco años.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

litteris

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

cuicapapalotl

¿Aquin nehua?
Nipapatlantinemi,
nontlatlalin, nixochincuica,
cuicapapalotl;
¡ma nellequiza,
ma noyolquimatl!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

hyperpolyglots

  • Up to 7,000 different languages are estimated to be spoken around the world
  • Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, German and French are world's most widely spoken languages, according to UNESCO
  • Languages are grouped into families that share a common ancestry
  • English is related to German and Dutch, and all are part of Indo-European family of languages
  • Also includes French, Spanish and Italian, which come from Latin
  • 2,200 of the world's languages can be found in Asia, while Europe has 260
BBC Languages



Ray Gillon speaks 18 languages. To be precise, he only speaks eight fluently. His grasp on the other 10 is merely conversational.

Throw anything at him in Portuguese, Thai, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Bulgarian or Mandarin and he will banter back.

In the UK, where there has been a growing anxiety over the failure to learn additional languages, Gillon might seem to be a bit of an anomaly. More and more children have been giving up languages since the last government made learning foreign languages optional in England from the age of 14.

Publisher HarperCollins has been searching for the UK's most multilingual student, and has discovered a 20-year-old Oxford University undergraduate who can speak 11 languages. And a new book, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, by Michael Erard, suggests Gillon is among a set of people who are learning languages for fun.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

QUEUH CE TLATOHUANI IN QUIMILNAMIQUI IN TLATOQUE

Tlaocolxochi ixayoticaya ic nichuipana in nocuic nicuicani,
niquimilnamiqui in tepilhuan,
in teintoque,
in tlaçotitoque in campa in ximohuaya,
in oteuctico, in otlatocatico in tlallia icpac,
in quetzalhuahuaciuhtoque in chalchiuhteintoque in tepilhuan,
in maoc imixpan in maoc oquitlani;
in ye itto in tlalticpac iximachoca in tloque in nahuaque.

Y yo ya hue nitlaocolcuicaya in niquimilnamiqui in tepilhuan,
ma zan itla ninocuepa,
ma niquimonana,
ma niquinhualquixti in ompa in ximoayan,
ma oc oppa tihua in tlalticpac,
ma oc quimahuizoqui in tepilhuan in ticmahuizoa,
azo huel yehuantin tlatlazomahuizozquia in ipalnemohualoni,
quemmach tomazehual in tlazaniuh ticmatican in ticnopillahueliloque ic choca in noyollo nino tlalnamiquiliz huipana in nicuicani choquiztica tlaocoltica nitlalnamiquia.

Manozo zan nicmati in nechcaquizque intla itla yectli cuicatl niquimehuili in ompa ximohuayan,
ma ic niquipapacti,
ma ic niquimacotlaza inin tonez inin chichinaquiliz in tepilhuan.
Cuix on machiaz?
Quennel nihualnellaquahua?
Aquen manian ompa niquimontocaz?
Ano niquin nonotztaciz in ye yuh quin in tlalticpac.

nahuatl poetry

Ancient Nahuatl poetry, containing the Nahuatl text of XXVII ancient Mexican poems (1887)

 


Author: Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899
Subject: Nahuatl language -- Texts
Publisher: Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: nrlf_ucb:GLAD-84021879
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: University of California Libraries
Collection: cdl; americana
Scanfactors: 1

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PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANCIENT NAHUATL POETRY
 

I. CUICAPEUHCAYOTL.



1. Ninoyolnonotza, campa nicuiz yectli, ahuiaca xochitl:—Ac nitlatlaniz? Manozo yehuatl nictlatlani in quetzal huitzitziltin, in chalchiuh huitzitzicatzin; manozo ye nictlatlani in zaquan papalotl; ca yehuantin in machiz, ommati, campa cueponi in yectli ahuiac xochitl, tla nitlahuihuiltequi in nican acxoyatzinitzcanquauhtla, manoze nitlahuihuiltequi in tlauhquecholxochiquauhtla; oncan huihuitolihui ahuach tonameyotoc in oncan mocehcemelquixtia; azo oncan niquimittaz intla onechittitique; nocuexanco nictemaz ic niquintlapaloz in tepilhuan, ic niquimellelquixtiz in teteuctin.

2. Tlacazo nican nemi, ye nicaqui in ixochicuicatzin yuhqui tepetl quinnananquilia; tlacazo itlan in meyaquetzalatl, xiuhtotoameyalli, oncan mocuica, momotla, mocuica; nananquilia in centzontlatolli; azo quinnananquilia in coyoltototl, ayacachiçahuacatimani, in nepapan tlazocuicani totome. Oncan quiyectenehua in tlalticpaque hueltetozcatemique.

3. Nic itoaya, nitlaocoltzatzia; ma namechellelti y tlazohuane, niman cactimotlalique, niman hualtato in quetzal huitzitziltin. Aquin tictemohua, cuicanitzine? Niman niquinnanquilia niquimilhuia: Campa catqui in yectli, ahuiac xochitl ic niquimellelquixtiz in amohuampotzitzinhuan? Niman onechicacahuatzque ca nican tlatimitzittitili ticuicani azo nelli ic tiquimellelquixtiz in toquichpohuan in teteuctin.

4. Tepeitic tonacatlalpa, xochitlalpa nechcalaquiqueo oncan on ahuachtotonameyotimani, oncan niquittacaya in nepapan tlazoahuiac xochitl, tlazohuelic xochitl ahuach quequentoc, ayauhcozamalotonameyotimani, oncan nechilhuia, xixochitetequi, in catlehuatl toconnequiz, ma mellelquiza in ticuicani, tiquinmacataciz in tocnihuan in teteuctin in quellelquixtizque in tlalticpaque.

5. Auh nicnocuecuexantia in nepapan ahuiacxochitl, in huel teyolquima, in huel tetlamachti, nic itoaya manozo aca tohuanti hual calaquini, ma cenca miec in ticmamani; auh ca tel ye onimatico nitlanonotztahciz imixpan in tocnihuan nican mochipa tiqualtetequizque in tlazo nepapan ahuiac xochitl ihuan ticuiquihui in nepapan yectliyancuicatl ic tiquimellelquixtizque in tocnihuan in tlalticpactlaca in tepilhuan quauhtliya ocelotl.

6. Ca moch nicuitoya in nicuicani ic niquimicpac xochiti in tepilhuan inic niquimapan in can in mac niquinten; niman niquehuaya yectli yacuicatl ic netimalolo in tepilhuan ixpan in tloque in nahuaque, auh in atley y maceuallo.

7. Can quicuiz? Can quitlaz in huelic xochitl? Auh cuix nohuan aciz aya in xochitlalpan, in tonacatlalpan, in atley y macehuallo in nentlamati? Intla y tlacohua in tlalticpac ca çan quitemacehualtica in tloque in nahuaque, in tlalticpac; ye nican ic chocan noyollo noconilnamiquia in ompa onitlachiato y xochitlalpana nicuicani.

8. Auh nic itoaya tlacazo amo qualcan in tlalticpac ye nican, tlacazo occecni in huilohuayan, in oncan ca in netlamachtilli; tlezannen in tlalticpac? tlacazo occecni yoliliz ximoayan, ma ompa niauh, ma ompa inhuan noncuicati in nepapan tlazototome, ma ompa nicnotlamachti yectliya xochitl ahuiaca xochitl, in teyolquima, in zan tepacca, teahuiaca yhuintia, in zan tepacca, ahuiaca yhuintia.