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 | | Less well known, but important, are his contributions to the study of the Nahuatl and Maya languages. |
 | | He claimed that Nahuatl was an oligosynthetic language (a claim that would be brought up again some twenty years later by Morris Swadesh, another controversial American linguist, and, more recently, by Ernst Herrera Legorreta, a Mexican linguist). |
 | | Regarding Maya, he focused on the linguistic nature of the Mayan writing, claiming that it was syllabic to some degree (a claim that has been proven right by Scheele et. |
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