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.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountAggregate across the modern Nahuan varieties, mid-2010s estimate. StatusWikipedia article on Nahuatl: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionCentral Mexico, particularly Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Guerrero 1 Connections
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Source Ethnologue: Languages of the World
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Source Nezahualcoyotl (c. 1402-1472) - Encyclopedia.com
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1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
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