Cinco de Mayo and the Tataltepec Chatino word for ‘gringo’

Among the more well-known Spanish words is gringo. Despite the fanciful popular etymologies you may have heard, gringo almost surely comes from griego 'Greek'. It was at first used to refer to people whose language wasn't comprehensible by Spanish speakers, but over time in Mexican contexts it came to mean something like 'non-Spanish speaking foreigner, …

My thesis, The phonology and inflectional morphology of Cháʔknyá, Tataltepec de Valdés Chatino, a Zapotecan language is now finished, and all 21.6 MB of it can be downloaded here.