Nahuatl
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- noun
- /ˈnɑːwɑːtəl/
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náhuatl
- The word Olmec means "rubber" in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and it refers to the presence of rubber-producing trees along the Gulf Coast.
- Classical Nahuatl
- sources translated from Nahuatl
- Nahuatl, the Aztec language
Examples
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The Nahua students interpreted the images and expanded the answers, phonetically transcribing Nahuatl using Latin letters.
Blog text (14) -
David Tavarez recently filed a dissertation at the University of Chicago that uses sources in Nahuatl and Zapotec, as well as Spanish and Latin, to examine the spiritual conquest from both extirpator and native perspectives.
Academic text (2003) -
In Mexico, traditional Aztec Danza (dance) is being used to teach classical Nahuatl.
Academic text (2004) -
At first, Cortes used a chain of interpreters: he spoke Spanish to Aguilar, who spoke Maya to Malintzin, who spoke Nahuatl to the Indians.
Fiction book (1992) -
One of them—Malintzin, whose Nahuatl-speaking mother had given her as a child slave to a Maya-speaking Tabascan chief—spoke Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
Fiction book (1992) -
They spoke softly and rapidly, switching between Spanish and Nahuatl, the language of their ancestors.
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After the conquest, Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, became the administrative tongue of much of Mesoamerica.
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Even today, many people in rural areas speak Nahuatl as part of their cultural heritage.
Synonyms
A language spoken by the Nahua people in central Mexico
A language spoken by the Aztec people, also called Nahuatl
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nahuatl is the name the people used for their own language, and it comes from the native word nāhuatl meaning 'clear' or 'well-spoken'. So Nahuatl simply means the 'clear language' of the people of central Mexico.