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Nahuatl (English: / ˈnɑːwɑːtəl / NAH-wah-təl; [5] Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ⓘ), [cn 1] Aztec, or Mexicano[8] is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about 1.7 million Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have ...
Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan family. [7] Before Spanish colonization it was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America, most notably El Salvador and Nicaragua, but now is mostly confined to western El Salvador. [3]
The Nahuatl language in the United States is spoken primarily by Mexican immigrants from indigenous communities and Chicanos who study and speak Nahuatl as L2. Despite the fact that there is no official census of the language in the North American country, it is estimated that there are around 140,800 Nahuatl speakers. [citation needed]
Nahuan languages. The Nahuan or Aztecan languages are those languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family that have undergone a sound change, known as Whorf's law, that changed an original *t to /tɬ/ before *a. [2] Subsequently, some Nahuan languages have changed this / tɬ / to /l/ or back to /t/, but it can still be seen that the language ...
It was used in contrast with popoloca, "to speak unintelligibly" or "speak a foreign language". [13] Another, related term is Nāhuatlācatl [naːwaˈt͡ɬaːkat͡ɬ] (singular) or Nāhuatlācah [naːwaˈt͡ɬaːkaʔ] literally "Nahuatl-speaking people". [12] The Nahuas are also sometimes referred to as Aztecs.
Athabaskan (/ ˌæθəˈbæskən / ATH-ə-BASK-ən; also spelled Athabascan, Athapaskan or Athapascan, and also known as Dene) is a large family of Indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean). Kari and Potter (2010:10) place the total ...
Nahuatlismo. Nahuatlism is the term used to refer to words in the Spanish language that originate from Nahuatl. [1] It is also known in Spanish by the name “ aztequismo ” (or “ Aztec -ism”) Many nahuatlisms are only known in Mexican Spanish, since the majority of Nahuatl speakers are concentrated in the country.
Historical distribution in green. [1] The history of the Nahuatl, Aztec or Mexicano language can be traced back to the time when Teotihuacan flourished. From the 4th century AD to the present, the journey and development of the language and its dialect varieties have gone through a large number of periods and processes, the language being used ...