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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.
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]
Nahuatl is spoken by over 1 million people, with approximately 10% of speakers being monolingual. As a whole, Nahuatl is not considered to be an endangered language; however, during the late 20th century several Nahuatl dialects became extinct. [73] The 1990s saw radical changes in Mexican policy concerning indigenous and linguistic rights.
Despite the forced Hispanicization, [114] Nahuatl is still spoken by more than two million people, of which around 10% are monolingual. The survival of Nahuatl as a whole is not in imminent danger, but the survival of certain dialects is; and some have already become extinct during the last decades of the 20th century.
Still in other cases, the phoneme in question disappeared completely, for example in tiza (<tízatl), or “chalk.” An important present-day exception is the nahuatlism náhuatl, or “Nahuatl,” which preserves the “tl” sound in Spanish. However, this has not always been the case, since the form “nahuate” was also used at one point.
The extinct Classical Nahuatl, the enormously influential language spoken by the people of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, is one of the Central dialects. Lastra in her dialect atlas proposed three Peripheral groupings: eastern, western, and Huasteca. [12] She included Pipil in Nahuatl, assigning it to the Eastern Periphery grouping.
The form of Nahuatl used in the 16th century, when it began to be written in the Latin alphabet introduced by the Spaniards, became known as Classical Nahuatl. As of 2020, Nahuatl is spoken by over 1.6 million Mexica and other Nahua people, almost 7% of whom do not speak Spanish. [33]
Though Nahuatl still has over a million speakers, it is considered by some linguists to be endangered and on the way to extinction. [1] As with regional languages the world over, Nahuatl finds itself being replaced by a ‘world’ language, Spanish, as other small linguistic communities have shifted to languages like English and Chinese. The ...