Orizaba Nahuatl

Orizaba Nahuatl
Āwilisāpan Nāwatl
Native toMexico
RegionVeracruz
Native speakers
(120,000 cited 1991)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3nlv
Glottologoriz1235

Orizaba Nahuatl is a native American language spoken in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz mostly in the area to the south of the city of Orizaba.[2] It is also known as Orizaba Aztec and Náhuatl de la Sierra de Zongolica.[3] It has 79 percent intelligibility with Morelos Nahuatl.[3] There is a dialect called Ixhuatlancillo Nahuatl[3] which is spoken in a town to the north of Orizaba. There is one secondary school which uses this language.[3]

  1. ^ Orizaba Nahuatl at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ [1], Orizaba Nawatl, SIL-México, retrieved 19 Nov, 2007
  3. ^ a b c d Orizaba Nahuatl at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

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