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)[1]
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.[2]
Regulatit bi	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas[3]
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.

1. ↑ INEGI 2005:3
2. ↑ "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)
3. ↑ "Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas homepage".
4. ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh