March 2017
Nahuatl/Nawat in Central America (NECA) is a collaborative project to gather, transcribe, translate, and analyze documents written in Nahuatl or Nawat from Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua during the Spanish colonial period.
In 2005, Sergio Romero (University of Texas at Austin) and Laura Matthew (Marquette University) began compiling a list of Nahuatl documents from Central America. Soon they had over 40 citations from eight different archives, contributed by colleagues from Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States.
Over the years people added citations and argued over the documents’ linguistic characteristics.
