Nahuatl

Nahuatl (/ˈnɑːwɑːtəl/;^[4] Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwatɬ] ( listen)^{[cn 1]}) is a leid or group o leids of the Uto-Aztecan leid faimily. Varieties o Nahuatl are spoken bi a estimatit 1.5 million Nahua fowk, maist o whom live in Central Mexico; some who live in El Salvador are kent as the Pipil or Nawat fowk. Aw Nahuan leids are indigenous tae Mesoamericae.

Nahuatl
Mexicano, Nahuatl, an ithers
Native tae	Mexico an El Salvador
Region	State o Mexico, Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Durango, an immigrants in Unitit States, El Salvador, Guatemala an Canadae
Ethnicity	Nahua fowks
Native speakers	1.5 million (2000)[1]
Leid faimily	Uto-Aztecan Aztecan General Aztec Nahuatl
Early form	Proto-Nahuan
Dialects	Wastren Peripheral Nahuatl Eastren Peripheral Nahuatl Huastecan Nahuatl Central Nahuatl Pipil Nahuat
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Mexico (through the General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples.[2]
Regulatit bi	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas[3]
Leid codes
ISO 639-2	nah
ISO 639-3	nci Clessical Nahuatl For modren varieties, see Leet o Nahuan leids.
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Notes

Content notes

1. The Clessical Nahuatl wird nāhuatl (noun stem nāhua, + absolutive -tl ) is thocht tae mean "a guid, clear soond" (Andrews 2003:578 2003:364,398) This leid name haes several spellins, amang thaim náhuatl (the staundart spellin in the Spaingie leid),("Náhuatl" (in Spaingie). rae.es. Retrieved 6 Julie 2012.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)) Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl.

Citations

1. INEGI 2005:3
2. "General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 11 Juin 2008. Retrieved 30 Januar 2014.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
3. "Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas homepage".
4. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh