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Map showing the areas of Mexico where Nahuatl dialects are spoken today (red) and where it is known to have been spoken historically (green) [1] 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 ]
One example of that is the Nahuatl spoken in Tetelcingo, Morelos, whose speakers call their language mösiehuali. [35] The Pipil people of El Salvador refer to their language as Nāwat. [36] The Nahuas of Durango call their language Mexicanero. [37] Speakers of Nahuatl of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec call their language mela'tajtol ('the straight ...
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.
As of 2020, Nahuatl is spoken across Mexico by an estimated 1.6 million people, including 111,797 monolingual speakers. [21] This is an increase from 1.4 million people speakers total but a decrease from 190,000 monolingual speakers in 2000. [22]
Map of La Huasteca in Mexico. ... There are two main dialects of Nahuatl spoken in the region. The Nahuas in the north of the region share a number of cultural traits ...
The northernmost Uto-Aztecan language is Shoshoni, which is spoken as far north as Salmon, Idaho, while the southernmost is the Nawat language of El Salvador and Nicaragua. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Ethnologue gives the total number of languages in the family as 61, and the total number of speakers as 1,900,412. [ 6 ]
The only indigenous language spoken by more than a million people in Mexico is the Nahuatl language; the other Native American languages with a large population of native speakers (at least 400,000 speakers) include Yucatec Maya, Tzeltal Maya, Tzotzil Maya, Mixtec, and Zapotec.
The Guerrero Nahuatl language is a Nahuan language spoken by about 125,000 people in Mexico. [1] ... Map from Zumpango del Río, with glosses in Guerrero Nahuatl".