Publications and Research
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Nchetjá kuènté chjasin Jnantáyo, tíhi mé jnko xroon chronka nkexrín t’óna ti nchetjá kuènté ti Chjasin Jnantáyo, T’áninka. Ti xroon mé kjaxin tsoxraxinkakonxin chojni nkexrín k’uénixja sín itan ngiva ti chjasin Jnantáyo. Ti ixra nohen chojni ich’e ndesi ósé, mé tíha la jína tsoxrakonxin ti itan ngiva, kíxi kaín xjanchjin ko xjandoa mé ts’itja ti itan. Tjinkaoni kíxin tsokjan tsonixja sín ti itan k’uénixja chojni ósé, ko kjaxin ts’itjáñahña ti nkehe nohen chojni ch’énaxín nchetjá.
Nchetjá kuènté chjasin Jnantáyo: El barro del pueblo de Metzontla, es una obra que está dedicada a la alfarería de Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla. El libro constituye un esfuerzo crucial para el rescate de la lengua ngiva en la comunidad de Metzontla. Mediante las milenarias prácticas alfareras de esta comunidad, encontramos una forma cautivadora de transmitir el idioma originario ngiva a niñas y niños. El objetivo es rescatar la lengua originaria, como preservar el conocimiento ancestral de los alfareros.
Nchetjá kuènté chjasin Jnantáyo: El barro del pueblo de Metzontla (The Clay of the Village of Metzontla) is a work dedicated to the pottery of Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla, Mexico. This book is a crucial effort to preserve the Ngiva language in the Metzontla community. Through the ancient pottery practices of this community, we have found a captivating way to pass on the native Ngiva language to children. The goal is to both revitalize the original language and preserve the ancestral knowledge of the potters.
Comments
© 2025 Xítjōahnko Cruz & Eric Silberberg
Published for the first time in 2025 by Ndōe-Xroon.
This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. You are permitted to copy, distribute, adapt, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes only, provided that credit is given to the original creators and the use is under the identical terms.
This book is written in the Ngiva language, from the Metzontla variant, erroneously known by the exonym Popoloca. In some places, the Atzingo variant is used to supplement incomplete vocabulary.
Glottocode: mezo1235 | ISO 639-3: pbe
Financed by The Endangered Language Fund, The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies, and the CUNY Queens College School of Arts & Humanities.
This project was supported in part by a Title VI grant from the NRC of the U.S. Department of Education. The contents of this book do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education.
ISBN: 979-8-218-74430-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2025944384