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Nahuatl

 
Dictionary: Na·hua·tl   (nä'wät'l) pronunciation
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n., pl., Nahuatl, or -tls.
  1. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico, including the Aztecs.
  2. The Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuatl.

[Spanish náhuatl, from Nahuatl, that which pleases the ear, from nahua-, audible, intelligent, clear.]


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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Nahuatl language
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Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico, which continues to be spoken by more than a million modern Mexicans in various markedly divergent dialects. Nahuatl was the language of perhaps the majority of the inhabitants of pre-Conquest central Mexico, including Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City), the capital of the Aztec empire. Soon after the Conquest in the 1520s, Nahuatl began to be written in a Spanish-based orthography, and an abundance of documents survive from the colonial period, including annals, municipal records, poetry, formal addresses, and The History of the Things of New Spain, a remarkable compendium of Nahua culture compiled by Indian informants under the direction of the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 – 1590).

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Archaeology Dictionary: Nahuatl
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The native language spoken by Toltec, Aztec, and other Mesoamerican communities, still spoken in the Basin of Mexico. One of the Uto-Aztecan languages found over a large part of northwest and central America. Loan-words from Nahuatl to English include: tomato and chocolate.
WordNet: Nahuatl
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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico

Meaning #2: the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahuatl people

 
 

 

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