NAHUATLAN

näˈwŏtˌlən, group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock of North and Central America. A Nahuatlan language of great historical importance is Nahuatl, or Aztec. A descendant of the now extinct Aztec, the language of the ancient Aztec empire, Nahuatl is spoken today by approximately 1.5 million people, mainly in Mexico. Aztec is thought to have reached 5 million people in an area extending from Mexico to Panama. The Nahuatlan group also includes a number of other living languages, such as Pipil and Pochutla, and extinct tongues, among them Toltec, Chichimec, and Nahuatlato. See Native American languages.

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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion & Survival
Book by Stacy B. Schaefer, Peter T. Furst; University of New Mexico Press, 1996
Subjects: Ethnohistory--Mexico--Nayarit, Huichol Indians--History, Huichol Indians--Religion, Huichol Philosophy, Nayarit (Mexico)--Social Life And Customs, Peyotism--Mexico--Nayarit, Rites And Ceremonies--Mexico--Nayarit, Shamanism--Mexico--Nayarit
...to Classic Nahuatl Aztec and related Nahuatlan languages, including Pipil and Pochutec...Veracruz. Indeed, in contrast to the Nahuatlan languages, Cora and Huichol usually...like Classic Nahuatl, belongs to the Nahuatlan group, not the Sonoran, which is why...
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Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical Distribution
Book by Cyrus Thomas; Govt. Print. Off., 1911
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Languages, Indians Of Mexico--Languages
...50 , 51 , 60 , 61 , 78 , 82 , 83 , 93 See AZTEC, NAHUATL, NAHUATLAN, SIGUA. MEXCALTEPEC 50 MEXTITLANECA 50 MEXTITLATECO 42 MEZCALEROS...SUBTIABA. NAHUATL, NAHUA, NAHOA 12 , 42 , 43 , 55 , 82 - 84 NAHUATLAN 1 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 24 , 36 , 37 , 41 , 44 , 46 , 50 , 51...
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A Dictionary of Linguistics
Book by Mario A. Pei, Frank Gaynor; Philosophical Library, 1954
Subjects: Linguistics--Dictionaries
...of the Bodo-Naga-Kachin group. Nahuatl: See Aztec . Nahuatlan: A family of American Indian languages, a member of which...the ancient civilization of Mexico. According to Rivet, Nahuatlan is a sub-family of Uto-Aztecan , which includes also Shoshonean...
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Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities
Book by W. H. Holmes; Govt. Print. Off., 1919
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Antiquities
...making the task of separating the various classes of remains ethnologically and chronologically a most difficult one. The Nahuatlan stock, of which the Aztec is the best-known branch, held dominion over much of the area on the arrival of the Spanish...
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Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians
Book by John R. Swanton; U. S. Government Printing Office, 1942
Subjects: Caddo Indians
chita Hodge, 1907, art. Jumano . Sauer 1934, p. 68 thinks he has evidence that it was really a Nahuatlan group, and it was perhaps a part of the Suma disrupted by Apache invaders. Wichita traditions seem to agree with those of the...
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Nahuatlan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NAHUATLAN na wot l n, group of languages of the...stock of North and Central America. A Nahuatlan language of great historical importance...extending from Mexico to Panama. The Nahuatlan group also includes a number of other...
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Native American Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...has such subdivisions, or groups, as Nahuatlan , whose languages are spoken in Mexico...stocks of Mexico are often placed. The Nahuatlan group, as indicated earlier, is classified...Nahuatl, or Aztec, is a language of the Nahuatlan group. Mayan, which is found in Yucatan...
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Aztec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...AZTEC az tek , Indian people dominating central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. Their language belonged to the Nahuatlan subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages. They arrived in the Valley of Mexico from the north toward the end of the 12th cent...
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Nahuatl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NAHUATL see Nahuatlan ; Native American languages . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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