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| Nahuatl | ||||
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| Aztec Nāhuatl, Nāhuatlahtōlli, Mēxihcatlahtōlli, Mācēhuallahtōlli, Mēxihcacopa | ||||
 Nahua woman from the Florentine Codex. The speech scroll indicates that she is speaking. | ||||
| Native to | Mexico | |||
| Region | State of Mexico, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Chihuahua, Durango, and immigrants in United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Canada | |||
| Ethnicity | Nahua peoples | |||
| Native speakers | 1,740,000 (2010) | |||
| Language family | Uto-Aztecan
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| Early forms: | Proto-Nahuan
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| Official status | ||||
| Official language in | Mexico (through the General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples) | |||
| Regulated by | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-2 | nah | |||
| ISO 639-3 | nci Classical Nahuatl For modern varieties, see Nahuan languages | |||
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 | This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Nahuatl edition. |
The Nahuatl language is a language spoken by 1.5 million people, mostly in Mexico.
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