• Classical Nahuatl (also known simply as Aztec or Nahuatl) is any of the variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua franca...
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    Nahuatl (English: /ˈnɑːwɑːtəl/ NAH-wah-təl; Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of...
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  • This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language...
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    Nahuas (redirect from Nahuatl people)
    southeastern Veracruz, and Colima and coastal Michoacan. Classical Nahuatl was a lingua franca in Central Mexico before the Spanish conquest due to Aztec...
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    Aztecs (category Articles containing Classical Nahuatl-language text)
    the Mexica, Acolhua, and Tepanecs, and who often also used the Nahuatl language as a lingua franca. An example is Jerome A. Offner's Law and Politics in...
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    Mexica (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
    The Mexica (Nahuatl: Mēxihcah, Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkaḁ] ; singular Mēxihcātl) were a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were...
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  • The grammar of Classical Nahuatl is agglutinative, head-marking, and makes extensive use of compounding, noun incorporation and derivation. That is, it...
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    and Mixtecs. In addition to the Chocho and Mixtec languages, Nahuatl was used as a lingua franca. Its name means "plain of snakes". The state also exerted...
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  • Nahuatlismo (category Nahuatl words and phrases)
    adoption of Nahuatl as a lingua franca, which allowed many populations to simplify communication by learning it. The recognition of Nahuatl on behalf of...
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  • Nahuatl. In Nicaragua it was spoken by the Nicarao people who split from the Pipil around 1200 CE when they migrated south. Nawat became the lingua franca...
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    Inuit Pidgin) Lingua Franca Apalachee Lingua Franca Creek Lingua Geral Amazônica (also known as Nheengatú, Lingua Boa, Lingua Brasílica, Lingua Geral do Norte)...
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  • Austronesian roots, incorporating words from Malay, Hokkien, Spanish, Nahuatl, English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, and Quechua. The...
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  • civilization, 3rd to 9th centuries) Classical Nahuatl (lingua franca of 16th-century central Mexico) Classical Quechua (lingua franca of the 16th-century Inca Empire)...
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    Filipino is regulated by Commission on the Filipino Language and serves as a lingua franca used by Filipinos of various ethnolinguistic backgrounds. Republic...
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    Aztec Empire (category Articles containing Classical Nahuatl-language text)
    The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states:...
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    central Mexican Nahuatl. This raises questions about whether the Tecuexe spoke a dialect of Nahuatl as a native language, or used it as a lingua franca. The...
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    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...
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    Ángel María Garibay K. (category Translators from Nahuatl)
    translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the lingua franca of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec...
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    Armadillo (category Pages with Nahuatl languages IPA)
    approximative tense. The Aztecs called them āyōtōchtli [aːjoːˈtoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi], Nahuatl for "turtle-rabbit": āyōtl [ˈaːjoːt͡ɬ] (turtle) and tōchtli [ˈtoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi]...
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  • time. Major regional languages like Elamite, Sogdian, Koine Greek, or Nahuatl in ancient, post-classical and early modern times have been overtaken by...
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  • community shifting from using Otomi to using Nahuatl as their primary language. Nahuatl had become a lingua franca in the pre-Columbian era, being used...
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    Mesoamerican languages (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
    common “lingua franca” has evolved to facilitate communication between different linguistic groups. This has been the case for Classical Nahuatl and Classical...
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    sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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  • Mengin. Corpus Codicum Americanorum Medii Aevi; Litterarum Monumenta in Lingua Nahuatl et Maya…, Vol. 2. Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1945". American Antiquity...
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  • languages Udmurt Veps Votic Uto-Aztecan Comanche Nahuatl (certain modern varieties, as well as Classical Nahuatl include distinctions between animate and inanimate...
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  • List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-4438-3316-5. Nahuatl Dictionary/Diccionario del náhuatl Archived 3 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Whp.uoregon...
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  • from using Zapotec to using Nahuatl as their primary language. Nahuatl had become a lingua franca in the pre-Columbian era, being used as the administrative...
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    they still spoke the Otomi language in the 14th century while the Nahuatl was lingua franca from 1272 on. Continuing with data provided by Chimalpahin...
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    Quechua that was used as a lingua franca and administrative language in the Inca Empire (1438–1533) (henceforward Inca Lingua Franca or even Imperial Quechua)...
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  • on the Nahuatl language earned him recognition, and he received a grant to study it further in Mexico. He presented influential papers on Nahuatl upon his...
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