What if the Spanish Crown had not confirmed Nahuatl’s official position in New Spain in 1763, and Spanish was Mexico’s only widely used language?
Aren't most non-Nahuatl native languages (except Yucatec) already marginalized anyways? Nahuatl is just too strong for Mixtec or Zapotec or what have you to thrive.I read a long-running scenario where Nahuatl and other Native Mesoamerican languages were marginalized after Mexico gained independence and remained intact...
Well it is the situation in OTL; in the timeline that I've read, Nahuatl suffered such fate as well as the Spanish-speaking elite were dominant in ATL Mexican independence movement.Aren't most non-Nahuatl native languages (except Yucatec) already marginalized anyways? Nahuatl is just too strong for Mixtec or Zapotec or what have you to thrive.
OOC: I wasn’t being OOC.Well it is the situation in OTL; in the timeline that I've read, Nahuatl suffered such fate as well as the Spanish-speaking elite were dominant in ATL Mexican independence movement.
OOC: Oh, apologiesOOC: I wasn’t being OOC.
And I suppose no high school in the Southwest would ever offer Nahuatl courses ITTL. That's pretty surreal to think about.
Maybe there wouldn't even BE a Southewest. If New Spain doesn't fracture, Nuevo Mexico and California may never be absorbed by the Federated Provinces of North America. With a POD of 1763 the FPNA may never even form. What we know now as the FPNA's Southwest may be the Northwest of a Spanish-speaking Federation occupying all of the former New Spain.