Language of the Voiceless: Traces of Taino Language, Food, and Culture in the Americas From 1492 to the Present

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P a g e | 117 the sequence of the narrative, the term should already have had shifted to a different Nahuatl voice like, teocalli > ‘temple’, tlamanacalli > ‘sacrifice temple’ or even something related to tlamanalli > ‘religious offering’, ezolli > ‘sacred’ or teotl > ‘god’. For some reason, nonetheless, the transcribers of the three variants continue to employ the same lexicalized Mayan term, cúes, cu, cue as if following a common registry or transcribing from an original common source that had used the registry. However, regarding the Mayan voices, and as previously stated in this research, there was a very early pre-Columbian Mayan migration to the Caribbean that could have brought these cultural and linguistic affinities about certain voices and customs. For that matter, and given the space limitations of this research, we are only going to cite the DNA study as a reference point to this fact prior to analyzing the linguistic variances in the lexicalization of this word between the Taino and the Maya. According to Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, a 1999 ADNmt study conducted by Juan C. Martinez revealed that “there were some Mexican and Centro American genetic markers that could have traveled from Yucatan to Puerto Rico as part of a pre-South American migration” 160 . This genetic finding helps explain some of the affinities away from pure cultural and linguistic parallelism. Therefore, when we analyze the Mayan voices related to this morpheme, we are presented with the following word classification: K’uj > ‘god’, K’ult Naaj > ‘temple’, K’ul > ‘sacred’, K’uk’Ut > ‘tabernacle’, Witz > ‘magic mountain’. As it can be observed, the Mayan related terms seem to share with the Taino languages the morpheme k’ previously identified in Taino as ‘sacred’, ‘good’, ‘friendly’, ‘enlighten’. This linguistic affinity between the Maya and Taino could 160 (Robiou Lamarche, 2003)
P a g e | 118 explain the prevalence of the Mayan term over the Nahuatl voices in the rest of the text as the Spanish that arrived was already intertwined with Taino. Nonetheless, based on this pre-Columbian connection and given the fact that the Maya were a far more developed culture than the Taino, we can only argue that the lexicalization of the terms cúes, cue and cu as spelled by BDC could have had a very strong Taino influence and that given the familiarity between this two cultures, it could have been easier for the writers to lexicalize words base on a familiar registry, rather than try to adjust to the far more removed phonetic of the Nahuatl. 1.2 Duho. Although this word does not appear directly in the text, there is a certain cultural description about the rescued soldier Tapia’s appearance, sitting behavior and demeaner that could be argued to have a Taino connection. The quote reads as follows: Pues desque Cortés los vio de aquella manera, también picó como los demás soldados, que preguntó al Tapia que qué era del español. Y el español como le entendió, se puso en cuclillas, como hacen los indios, e dijo: "Yo soy" 161 . The quote states that “Cortes did not recognize Tapia and that once Tapia heard Cortes called him, he stood up and then squatted, the way Indians do”. However, before we analyze the possible Taino symbolism in this paragraph, it is important to mention that at that time of the sequence of BDC’s chronicle, the Spanish had not yet subjugated any of the mainland kingdoms. As a matter of fact, their cultural memory regarding the natives should have been that of the Caribbean and the kingdoms of 161 (Diaz del Castillo, Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espana| Aparato de Variantes, 1632)
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