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A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
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nahuatl
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, from Spanish, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) Nahuatl , the people's name, "something that makes an agreeable sound; someone who speaks well or speaks one's own language." As a language name, usually in the compound form nahuatlahotol-li .
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Nahuatl , known historically as Aztec , is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family . Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by an estimated Nahua peoples , most of whom live in central Mexico . All Nahuan languages are indigenous to ...
Usage examples of nahuatl.
His family immigrated to America from the Mexican town of Escampo, where he was taught Nahuatl at a very early age.
Sure, Nahuatl was their language, but it was inconceivable that Spanish would be unknown here.
Halperin heard voices speaking sharply in Spanish and in Nahuatl, but the words were incomprehensible to him.
Spainish is the dominant tongue in Aztecia today, but many people still use Nahuatl in their day-to-day lives, and it's as much the language of the native Powers as Arabic is for jinni.
That symbol represents a nahuatl, which is to say a tongue, or language, or speech, or sound.
If the nahuatl is more than ordinarily curly, and elaborated by the symbol for a butterfly or flower, then the figure is speaking poetry or singing music.
When I myself became a scribe, I added another elaboration to our picture writing: the nahuatl pierced by a maguey thorn, and all our other scribes soon adopted it.
Think of what those Nahuatl villagers could have done to those fucking Aztecs if they’d had a holocaust prevention manual—a handbook on guerilla warfare tactics.
Think of what those Nahuatl villagers could have done to those fucking Aztecs if they'd had a holocaust prevention manual--a handbook on guerilla warfare tactics.