Nahua

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Indian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztec are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, practicing shifting cultivation and working both common and private land. They are skilled weavers, using fibres of the maguey plant, wool, and cotton. Nahua parents and godparents have strong ties in a fictive kin relationship. Though they profess Roman Catholicism, the Nahua believe in witchcraft and recognize a variety of supernatural beings. See also Nahuatl language.

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General term for a succession of societies occupying central Mexico, the latest of which were Aztec.

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Nahua may refer to:

Nahua peoples, certain indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America, with native languages and dialects related to Nahuatl
Nahuatl, their language
Nahuan languages another word for the "Aztecan" subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan languages
- Nahuatl dialects, subgrouping of Uto-Aztecan languages, including as well as Pipil and Pochutec
Yora language, a language of Peru also known as Nahua

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