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 Nahuatl) is any of the variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ometepec Nahuatl, also known as Southern Guerrero Nahuatl, is one of the Central Nahuatl languages of south-central Mexico. The dialects of the three...
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Nahuatl honorifics refers to the set of linguistic elements and morphological systems found in the Nahuatl group of related languages and dialects, that...
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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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aguacate (Nahuatl awakatl) ajolote (Nahuatl axolotl) alpaca (Quechua allpaqa) amate (Nahuatl amatl) anticucho (Quechua anti uchu) atole (Nahuatl atolli)...
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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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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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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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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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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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Nuclear: Classical Nahuatl, Morelos Nahuatl, Tetelcingo Nahuatl Tlaxcala-Puebla Nahuatl (border of Puebla and Tlaxcala) Central Puebla Nahuatl (Xochiltepec–Huatlatlauca...
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Aztlán (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
Aztlán (from Nahuatl languages: Astatlan or westernized Aztlán, Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word...
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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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The Tlaxcala-Puebla Nahuatl language, also known as Central Nahuatl, is a Nahuan language spoken by 40,000 people in central Mexico. It is variously known...
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