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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Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium...
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A Nahuatl name is a given name in the Nahuatl language that was used by the Aztecs. There was a greater variety of Nahuatl names for Aztec males than for...
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Since the early 16th century, Nahuatl has been written in an orthography in Latin script based on Spanish spelling conventions, with overall the same...
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Nahuan languages (redirect from Nahuatl Dialects)
language went through a /tɬ/ stage. The best known Nahuan language is Nahuatl. Nahuatl is spoken by about 1.7 million Nahua peoples. Some authorities, such...
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Nahuas (redirect from Nahuatl people)
languages, or Nahuatl, consist of many variants, several of which are mutually unintelligible. About 1.5 million Nahuas speak Nahuatl and another million...
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Aztec script (redirect from Nahuatl writing)
The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic...
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Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuan language spoken by over a million people in the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, centered in the states of Hidalgo (Eastern)...
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Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words...
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Nahuatl has been in intense contact with Spanish since the Spanish conquest of 1521. Since that time, there have been a large number of Spanish loanwords...
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Aztecs (category Articles containing Classical Nahuatl-language text)
ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to...
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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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Uto-Aztecan languages (redirect from Uto-Nahuatl)
family as 61, and the total number of speakers as 1,900,412. Speakers of Nahuatl languages account for over 85% of these. The internal classification of...
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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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Michoacán Nahuatl is the name given to a variety of Nahuatl language spoken by the Nahua Michoacan on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in Michoacán. It is...
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The Guerrero Nahuatl language is a Nahuan language spoken by about 125,000 people in Mexico. It is also known as Guerrero Aztec and Náhuatl de Guerrero...
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Mexica (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
The Mexica (Nahuatl: Mēxihcah, Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkaḁ] ; singular Mēxihcātl) are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were...
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Cuitláhuac (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
[kwiˈtlawak] , modern Nahuatl pronunciation) (c. 1476 – 1520) or Cuitláhuac (in Spanish orthography; Nahuatl languages: Cuitlāhuac, Nahuatl pronunciation: [kʷiˈt͡ɬaːwak]...
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Quetzalcōātl (category Articles containing Classical Nahuatl-language text)
Quetzalcoatl (/ˌkɛtsəlkoʊˈætəl/) (Nahuatl: "Feathered Serpent") is a deity in Aztec culture and literature. Among the Aztecs, he was related to wind,...
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Nahuatl language in the United States is spoken primarily by Mexican immigrants from indigenous communities and Chicanos who study and speak Nahuatl as...
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aguacate (Nahuatl awakatl) ajolote (Nahuatl axolotl) alpaca (Quechua allpaqa) amate (Nahuatl amatl) anticucho (Quechua anti uchu) atole (Nahuatl atolli)...
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and Náhuatl de la Sierra de Zongolica. It has 79 percent intelligibility with Morelos Nahuatl. There is a dialect called Ixhuatlancillo Nahuatl which...
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Ōmeteōtl (category Articles containing Classical Nahuatl-language text)
Ōmeteōtl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːmeˈteoːt͡ɬ] ) ("Two gods") is a name used to refer to the pair of Aztec deities Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, also known...
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Aztec codex (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkatɬ aːˈmoʃtɬi], sing. codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the...
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molcajete (Spanish: [molkaˈxete]; Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl molcaxitl) and tejolote (from Nahuatl texolotl) are stone tools, the traditional Mexican version...
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Sierra Puebla Nahuatl is one of the Eastern Peripheral varieties of Nahuatl, spoken by ethnic Nahua people in northwestern Puebla state in Mexico. The...
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Aztlán (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
Aztlán (from Nahuatl languages: Astatlan or romanized Aztlán, Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word...
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Coatepec Nahuatl is a variety of Nahuatl of southwestern Mexico State and Guerrero spoken by 1,400 people. It is also known as Coatepec Aztec and Náhuatl de...
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Nawat language (section Nawat and Nahuatl compared)
international scholarly community to differentiate it more clearly from Nahuatl. In Nicaragua it was spoken by the Nicarao people who split from the Pipil...
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Pozole (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
Pozole (Spanish pronunciation: [po'sole]; from Nahuatl languages: pozolli, meaning cacahuazintle, a variety of corn or maize) is a traditional soup or...
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