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Nahuatl

Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Nahuatl is the Aztecan (Nahuan) branch of Uto-Aztecan and the language of the Aztec empire; its modern varieties are spoken across central Mexico. Classical Nahuatl left a large corpus of colonial-era documents and remains the largest single Uto-Aztecan language by number of speakers.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
nah 1
Speaker Count
1,700,000 1
Aggregate across the modern Nahuan varieties, mid-2010s estimate.
Region
Central Mexico, particularly Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Guerrero 1
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Source Ethnologue: Languages of the World

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Latin Script, Scripts
Sources
1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
SIL International, 2024View the Source
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