Nahuatl

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 citit 2000)
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.
Regulatit bi	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas
Leid codes
ISO 639-2	nah
ISO 639-3	nci Clessical Nahuatl; For modren varieties, see Leet o Nahuan leids.
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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.

Notes

↑ 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.

↑ INEGI 2005:3
↑ "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)
↑ "Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas homepage".
↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh