Courses in Nahuatl and Wixarika through the
Zacatecas State University Language Center

Older and Modern Nahuatl for native speakers. John Sullivan teaches daily classes from 9 to 10 in the morning and 2 to 3 in the afternoon at the Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology for native speakers of Nahuatl. Currently we are reading and commenting on the Nahuatl portion of Book 12 of the Florentine Codex and translating it into Modern Huastecan Nahuatl. We are also working on a monolingual dictionary of Modern Huatecan Nahuatl.

Modern Wixarika (Huichol) for native speakers. John Sullivan teaches a daily class from 5 to 6 in the afternoon at the Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology for native speakers of Wixarika. Currently, we are preparing a course in spoken Wixarika for non-native speakers.

Older and Modern Nahuatl for non-native speakers. Delfina de la Cruz teaches a series of daily hour-long classes between 1:30 and 4:00 in the afternoon at the Zacatecas State University Language Center for non-native speakers.

Intensive course in Older and Modern Nahuatl for non-native speakers. This intensive summer course, taught by John Sullivan, Delfina de la Cruz and various native-speaking teaching assistants, is designed for university students and professors. The 2007 session will be held at the Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology from June 25 to August 3. FLAS funding is available for US graduate students through their home institutions.

Syllabus: English, Español