Indigenous documents in Spanish (18th Century). A document about the Toluca sorcerers

Abstract

During the Spanish Colonial period, the indigenous communities were subjected to the Castilian administration manners; these caused that those communities took part in the making of texts written in their own languages and in Spanish, due to the significance of the written text in the occidental world. The documentation is important, on the one hand, for the writing of the history of the colonial period and as a source for the knowledge of the linguistic interaction during those years, on the other. Therefore, in this article we present the paleographic transcription of a file written by some Toluca Valley’s indigenes in Spanish language. We also present a brief analysis that remarks the possible interference of the Nahua language over this particular variety of Spanish.