Diapositiva 1

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Nahuatl family
The name Nahuatl comes from the root nahua,
which means clear sound or command. More
people speak Nahuatl than any other indigenous
language in Mexico over a million and a half!
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Nahuatl is known in many parts of the world
because of the Aztecs, also called the "Mexica.
These people lived in Mexico-Tenochtitlan, or
what is today the center of Mexico City, in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Mexica
were the dominant civilization in Mesoamerica at
the time of the Spanish conquest.
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• The green areas on the map are the Nahuatl
  homelands where the Nahuatl languages are still
  spoken today. They include parts of the Federal
  District (Mexico City) and of the states of
  Durango, México, Guerrero, Michoacán, Morelos,
  Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco,
  Tlaxcala, and Veracruz.

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Because they spoke a particular kind of Nahuatl,
both the Nahuatl family and other individual
variants are sometimes called "Aztec" or
"Mexicano." (The Uto-Aztecan stock is also
sometimes called Uto-Nahuatl.) And of course, it
is from their capital city, México mexihko,
that the modern country of Mexico took its name.
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References

• Information gathered from the Summer Institute of
  Linguistics at in Mexico The Nahuatl Family
  (http//www.sil.org/mexico/nahuatl/00i-nahuatl.htm
  )