Back Nàhuatl clàssic Catalan Κλασική Γλώσσα Νάουατλ Greek Klasika naŭatla lingvo Esperanto Náhuatl clásico Spanish Nahuatl klasiko Basque Lingua náhuatl clásica Galician Nahuatl Chlassicagh GV Lingua nahuatl classica Italian Klassisk nahuatl NB Lenga nahuatl, classical PMS
| Classical Nahuatl | |
|---|---|
| Nāhuatlāhtōlli | |
| Pronunciation | [naːwat͡ɬaʔˈtoːlːi] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Aztec Empire. Postclassic Mesoamerica |
| Era | 14th to 16th century, during the Late Postclassic and after Conquest of Mexico in the Early Colonial Period |
Uto-Aztecan languages
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Standard forms |
Colonial Nahuatl |
| Mixteca-Puebla Hieroglyphs (Aztec Script)/ Latin Alphabet (Nahuatl Alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nci |
| Glottolog | clas1250 |
Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Latin Alphabet), is a set of variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua franca at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. During the subsequent centuries, it was largely displaced by Spanish and evolved into some of the modern Nahuan languages in use (other modern dialects descend more directly from other 16th-century variants). Although classified as an extinct language,[1] Classical Nahuatl has survived through a multitude of written sources transcribed by Nahua peoples and Spaniards in the Latin script.
- ^ "Ethnologue summary for Classical Nahuatl". Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2006-06-09.