Index of place, person and ethnic group names

• Aztec Empire 5, 282, 407, 413

• Baja California
  • lowland Spanish features167
  • Mazahua migration to138

• Balsas, Guerrero
  • Náhuatl-Spanish contact in 8, 24, 151

• Black Hills
  • Kiowa original location309

• California 6, 264
  • arrival of Spanish in167
  • intragroup dialogic contact in405

• Canary Islands
  • Spanish dialect features of 156–157, 160–161, 163, 167
  • Altantic Spanish386

• Chichimeca (ethnic group) 230, 235, 237–238, 269–271, 282, 294, 296, 298

• Chichimecas, Misión de230

• Chichimecas de Xolotl271

• Chihuahua
  • Spanish dialect features of 161, 167
  • Apache and Comanche raids into 312–313, 316

• Cholones 321, 329–330

• Coahuila
  • Mazahua migrations to138
  • Tlaxcalan Nahua migration to241
  • Apache and Comanche raids into 311–312

• College of Santa Cruz of Tlatelolco 403, 412

• Cora140

• Doña Marina 400, 409 ; see also Malintzin, Malinche

• Durango
  • western peripheral Nahua speakers 238, 241, 248, 252, 258–261, 264, 269
  • Tepehuan in271

• Guachichiles230 see also Guachichil

• Guanajuato
  • Chichimec speakers in 20, 229, 233, 235

• Guerrero8
  • Me'phaa speakers in 82, 84, 98, 102, 104, 151, 265, 270, 282, 287, 291

• Hibitos330

• Huicholes 238, 241

• Huehuetepec 44, 83, 86 ; see also Huehuetepec Me'phaa

• Isthmus
  • communication route in Mesoamerica270

• Jalisco 239–245, 252, 257, 264–265, 267, 269, 278, 294

• Jonaces see Jonaz

• Lacanjá-Chansayab128

• Los Altos
  • region of Nueva Galicia 20, 237–238, 240, 245–246, 248, 250

• Malinaltepec 83–84, 87–88, 90–92, 94–100

• Malinche400 see also Doña Marina, Malintzin

• Malinche Nahuatl 13, 114

• Malintzin 400, 409 ; see also Doña Marina, Malinche

• Mangas Coloradas
  • Apache leader 306, 313

• Mesoamerica 1–7, 15–16, 19, 31, 71, 105, 116, 125–126, 129, 147–148, 155, 160, 162–163, 171, 237–239, 243, 264, 266–267, 320, 335, 340, 351, 397, 401, 404–405, 407, 411–412, 414

• Mesoamerican see Mesoamerica

• Mexica 195, 239, 271, 276, 287, 414

• Mexico 2–3, 6, 13, 21, 29, 32, 51, 72, 81–82, 84, 88–89, 106, 129, 133–134, 138, 150, 161, 164, 166–167, 209, 212, 240, 242–244, 249, 257, 263–267, 269–272, 274, 276, 278, 280–282, 284, 287, 293–295, 300, 302, 311–312, 320, 336, 397, 400, 402–404, 409, 412
  • academias for different languages89
  • central 21, 25, 26, 72, 235, 240, 243, 249, 257, 267, 270, 282
  • east-central29
  • eastern21
  • Gulf coast of21
  • interdialectal intelligibility102
  • language policy25
  • linguistic variety89
  • Mazahua community138
  • modern diglossia13
  • northwest 6, 26, 138
  • pre-Hispanic250
  • southern81
  • Spanish language dominance88
  • Valley of 272, 274, 278, 336
  • western 244, 257, 261–264, 266–267, 269, 287, 293

• Mexico, State of137

• Michoacán 137, 238, 240, 264, 265

• Misión de Chichimecas 230, 235

• Nanzintla 83, 86–88, 92 n.17

• Nayarit 239–241, 243, 248, 252, 259, 264–265, 267, 269, 281
  • Nahuatl of 241–243, 252
  • Western Nahua265
  • Cora contact with Durango Mexicanero259
  • colonial languages in Nayarit 267, 269
  • Mexicanero dialect of281
  • Colonial multilingualism in239
  • Colonial sources on languages of240

• New Spain 173, 187, 190–191, 237, 239–240, 242–243, 407, 410–412
  • language contact in New Spain 23–25
  • sociolinguistic stratification in 25, 27
  • orthographic variation in Spanish of173

• Nicaragua 21, 84, 92, 336

• Nueva Galicia 20, 237, 240–243, 245, 267–268
  • Nahuatl texts from Nueva Galicia 20, 237–261

• Peru 156, 158, 319–321, 329–330, 400, 403, 410, 412

• Peruvian see Peru

• Piedras Negras, Coahuila311

• San Baltasar Chichicapan8

• San Luis Potosí 20, 164, 209, 210, 211, 222, 225, 238

• San Pedro Potla 128, 137–138

• Santa María Zaniza 106, 174

• Sierra Madre Occidental 20, 237–238, 240, 248

• Sinaloa 167, 240, 267

• Sola de Vega 106, 174

• Somalia115

• Sonora 161, 164, 167, 265, 312–313

• South Dakota309

• southern Plains 302–303, 308–309, 311

• Southwest 21, 267, 270, 301–303, 313, 315

• Southwestern see Southwest

• Tehuantepec 230, 295

• Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco 265, 274, 276

• Teocaltiche294

• Tetelcingo, Mor. 282, 285, 288

• Tetzcoco, E. de Mexico 271–272

• Teúl 230, 241, 267, 284, 294

• Tierra Colorada 43, 48

• Tlacoapa88

• Tlapa de Comonfort89

• Tlaxcala see Tlaxcalan

• Tlaxcalan 239, 241, 265, 267, 272

• Tlaxomulco, Jal. 28, 252, 261, 300

• Tolteca-Chichimeca 294, 295

• Toltecas-Chichimecas see Tolteca-Chichimeca

• Toltecs276

• Trinidad García231

• Tucson 98, 167

• Tuxpan, Jal. 243, 252, 284, 294

• West Indies 394–396, 405, 407–408, 410–411, 414

• Western Mexico 21, 244, 263–264, 266–267, 269, 271–272, 287, 293–295

• Western New Spain243

• Xalpatlahuac, Gro.291

• Xolotl see Chichimecas de Xolotl

• Xuchipila, Jal.284

• Yucatec Mayas12

• Zacapoaxtla, Pue.288

• Zacatecas 5, 230, 238, 241, 252, 264, 269