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tlaca nepapantin.

Headword: 
tlaca nepapantin.
Principal English Translation: 

the various peoples (see attestations); or, strangers, foreigners who now live among the locals (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlaca nepapantin. lo mesmo es que tlacanechicoltini.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mochitin nepapa tlaca = todas las diversas gentes (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 538–539.

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity