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[7] [8] The University of Utah is one of several academic institutions in the United States that regularly teach the Nahuatl language. [9] There are also Nahuatl professors who teach Nahuatl classes at the University of Texas. [10] [11] The University of California in Los Angeles Latin American Institute has a program of classes in Nahuatl. [12]
As a result of internal migrations within the country, all Mexican states today have some isolated pockets and groups of Nahuatl speakers. The modern influx of Mexican workers and families into the United States has resulted in the establishment of a few small Nahuatl-speaking communities, particularly in Texas, New York and California. [24]
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 ]
Contemporary distribution of Nahuatl speakers in Mexico. Today, a spectrum of Nahuan languages are spoken in scattered areas stretching from the northern state of Durango to Tabasco in the southeast. Pipil, [38] the southernmost Nahuan language, is spoken in El Salvador by a small number of speakers. According to IRIN-International, the Nawat ...
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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. [9] 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]
In addition to the Christian god, the Christian devil has also been identified with pre-Hispanic malevolent spirits. Tlacatecolotl (Nahuatl for “man owl”) leads victims to the underworld, and often appears on earth as an owl. His alter ego, tlahualilo, (wrathful one) is the spirit that lurks around graveyards and pre-Hispanic ruins
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