Otomi
In Nahuatl, the word Otomis indicates a ethno-linguistics group of the central Mexico, which one agrees to underline the seniority. Not having never had a written form and having left archeological sites, Otomis caused only little interest on behalf of the specialists in the Mésoamérique, except notable for Jacques Soustelle. They are currently established in a zone in the north of Mexico City, but they had to occupy a surface of dispersion much wider formerly, before the Nahuas do not come to occupy most of the central Plate. Otomis are defined themselves by their language, which belongs to the group oto-mango, to which also belong the mixtèque one and the zapotèque one. Otomi indicate themselves by the word “Nyan-Nyoû”: as ““nyan” means “speech”, Otomi are those which speak Nyoû.
At the time prehispanic, Otomis were the subject of many preconceived ideas on behalf of their neighbors, in the same manner as certain groups at our time. The Aztèques regarded them as remained. Bernardino de Sahagún referred there in the Codex of Florence. One reproached them moreover of too much drinking and badly getting dressed! , With an exception, not having never formed of State, Otomis frequently found to get busy like soldiers with the service of the close cities, as formerly the Swiss mountain dwellers in Europe did it, so much so that at the Aztec ones, there was a group of warriors who drew their name, “Otomi”, of a military behavior originating in these people. One also allotted the origin of the habit to them consisting in skinning a dead enemy and being covered his skin. At the time when the Cortes entered on their territory, the Tlaxcaltèques sent initially warriors otomis to his meeting.
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