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Cacao and Chocolate being Nahuatl words
[edit]The source given to attribute these is very controversial in linguistic studies. The Kaufman & Justeson 2009 source currently in the article is dedicated to debunking it. I have written out an outline of what the literature says on the chocolate talk page re; cacao, but the Nahuatl origin of chocolate is also contested, and it is not true that "there is no real doubt that the word chocolate comes from Nahuatl." I am not saying it isn't, just that it needs some attribution or recognition of it being contentious. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 12:45, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
FA concerns
[edit]I am reviewing this article for URFA/2020, and I am concerned that this article no longer meets the featured article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:
- The lead, at six paragraphs, is longer than what is recommended at MOS:LEADLENGTH
- There is a lot of uncited text, including entire paragraphs and the entire "Numerals" section,
- I do not think the "Sample text" section should be in the article, as there are several examples in various sections.
- The "Demography and distribution" section needs to be updated.
Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should it go to WP:FAC? Z1720 (talk) 21:35, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- I will try to take a look, thanks for the heads-up. Remsense诉 21:52, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Kwamikagami, do you recall a particular source being used for the § Morphology and syntax §§ Numerals section? Remsense诉 19:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- I don't, but the info isn't unique to whatever source I used. For example, in Silver & Miller (1998) American Indian Languages, p.64, they have "cempohualtzonxiquipilli" for 64 million (slightly different orthography), with the prefix cen- for "one unit of" and the rest of the morphemes as we explain them. That is, you can continue to count beyond that in units of pohualtzonxiquipilli.
- I also can't tell you if my source had the orthography we have now, or if I normalized it to match the article. Given how variable Nahuatl orthography is, it should be normalized across the bulk of this article, with a section on the variation. — kwami (talk) 01:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Remsense诉 01:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- "poaltzonxiquipilli" is probably the source's orthography, given that it's dated "poal" rather than more usual "pohual" or "powal". Regardless, it diverges from the article and IMO should be retransliterated to match, even if that means a linguistic transcription rather than orthography. — kwami (talk) 01:56, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Remsense诉 01:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Kwamikagami, do you recall a particular source being used for the § Morphology and syntax §§ Numerals section? Remsense诉 19:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Adding to the list of concerns — as this edit by Meerkat77 made me realize, a lot of the sources in "20th and 21st centuries" are fairly outdated at this point. Erinius (talk) 19:58, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yes--the field is moving quickly, I think. Meerkat77 (talk) 19:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
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