Nahuatl

//ˈnɑːwɑːt(ə)l//

"Nahuatl" in a Sentence (10 examples)

I learn Nahuatl at my school. I'm Mexican.

The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl.

Classical Nahuatl had four vowels, /a/, /e/, /i/, and /o/, which could be either long or short.

Nahuatl was the language of the Aztecs.

I'm learning Nahuatl.

Do you speak Nahuatl?

With the immigration of Mexicans to the United States, today there are also small communities of Nahuatl speakers in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and New York.

This percentage represents almost 1,45 million people, of which 198,000 are monolingual, such that Nahuatl is not in danger of dying in the near future.

In 1895, more than 5 percent of the population of Mexico still spoke Nahuatl.

The social marginalization of the language (Nahuatl) and of indigenous communities led to a decrease in the number of speakers in the twentieth century.

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