Modern Dialects of Nahuatl and Their Tentative Classification
A Center-Periphery scheme, strictly synchronic, without historical pretensions, was introduced by Canger in 1978 and supported by Lastra de Suarez (1986). An Eastern-Western scheme making the claim to genetic validity was used by Dakin (2003:261).
In the decade up to 1986 there was a spate of research published on the classification of the modern dialects, culminating in the isogloss atlas by Lastra (Lastra de Suárez 1986). Since then there has been little research published as to the classification of Nahuatl dialects.
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