In this previous post, I outlined two criteria that seem to distinguish different schools of Colonial Valley Zapotec orthography:
a.) spellings of /r/: in Mexicanist orthographies usually spelled, but in Oaxacanist orthographies usually spelled .
b.) use of doubled vowels: the Oaxacanist tradition uses them about twice as frequently as the Mexicanist tradition.
In this respect, a group of documents written in the town of Tecticpac between 1610-1626 are interesting. The documents in question are
These documents seem like the earlier Mexicanist writing, in that use of doubled vowels is not common, but this group of documents is also fascinating since it shows variable use of.
(More details on t/r in Tecticpac in a following post.)
a.) spellings of /r/: in Mexicanist orthographies usually spelled
b.) use of doubled vowels
In this respect, a group of documents written in the town of Tecticpac between 1610-1626 are interesting. The documents in question are
These documents seem like the earlier Mexicanist writing, in that use of doubled vowels is not common, but this group of documents is also fascinating since it shows variable use of
(More details on t/r in Tecticpac in a following post.)
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