Nahuatl

Nahuatl
Aztec
Nāhuatl, Nāhuatlahtōlli, Mēxihcatlahtōlli, Mācēhuallahtōlli, Mēxihcacopa
Nahua woman from the Florentine Codex. The speech scroll indicates that she is speaking.
Native to	Mexico
Region	State of Mexico, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Chihuahua, Durango, and immigrants in United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Canada
Ethnicity	Nahua peoples
Native speakers	1,740,000 (2010)
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Nahuan Nahuatl
Early form	Proto-Nahuan
Dialects	Western Peripheral Nahuatl Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl Huasteca Nahuatl Central Nahuatl languages
Official status
Official language in	Mexico (through the General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples)[1]
Regulated by	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nah
ISO 639-3	nci Classical Nahuatl For modern varieties, see Nahuan languages
Glottolog	azte1234  Aztec
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Nāhuatl edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Nahuatl language is a language spoken by 1.5 million people, mostly in Mexico.^[3]

1. ↑ "General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2008.
2. ↑ "Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas homepage".
3. ↑ Ager, Simon (2016). "Nahuatl (nāhuatl/nawatlahtolli)". Omniglot. Retrieved 23 February 2016.