Nahuatl

See also nahuatl, náhuatl, and nàhuatl

English

Etymology

Spanish, from Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnɑːwɑːt(ə)l/, /nɑːˈwɑːt(ə)l/, /n‌əˈwɑːt(‌ə)l/

Proper noun

Nahuatl

1. The polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people of Mexico.
2. A group of people indigenous to the Central Mexico region spanning multiple tribal groups including the Aztecs.
3. (US politics) All persons descended from pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Western hemisphere.

Translations

language

• Armenian: նահուատլ (hy) (nahuatl)
• Catalan: nahua (ca) m, (colloquial) nàhuatl (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎾᎱᎠᏢ (chr) (nahuatlv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納瓦特爾語 (cmn), 纳瓦特尔语 (cmn), nàwǎtèěryǔ (cmn)

• Classical Nahuatl: Nahuatl; Nahuatlahtolli
• Czech: nahuatl (cs) m, náhuatl (cs) m, aztéčtina (cs) f
• Danish: nahuatl (da)
• Dutch: Nahuatl (nl)
• Esperanto: naŭatla lingvo (eo)
• Finnish: nahuatl (fi)
• French: nahuatl (fr) m
• German: Nahuatl (de) n
• Irish: Nachuáitlis (ga) f
• Italian: nahuatl (it)

• Japanese: ナワトル語 (ja) (nawatoru-go)
• Latin: lingua navatlaca (la) f
• Macedonian: ацтечки (mk) (áctečki) m, наватл (mk) (navátl) m
• Mapudungun: nawa dungun
• Nahuatl: Nāhuatlahtōlli (nah), nauatlajtoli (nah), maseualajtoli (nah)
• Navajo: Méhigo bizaad
• Polish: nahuatl (pl)
• Portuguese: língua nahuatl (pt) f, nauatle (pt) m
• Russian: науатль (ru) (nauatl’) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нaхуа̀тл (sh) m

  Roman: nahuàtl (sh) m

• Spanish: náhuatl (es) m
• Swahili: Kiazteki (sw)
• Swedish: nahuatl (sv)

See also

• Nahuatl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wiktionary's coverage of Nahuatl terms

External links

• ISO 639-2 code nah

Ethnologue entry for Classical Nahuatl, nci Ethnologue entry for Central Nahuatl, nhn Ethnologue entry for Central Puebla Nahuatl, ncx Ethnologue entry for Highland Puebla Nahuatl, azz Ethnologue entry for Northern Puebla Nahuatl, ncj Ethnologue entry for Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl, nhs Ethnologue entry for Coatepec Nahuatl, naz Ethnologue entry for Durango Nahuatl, nln Ethnologue entry for Central Huasteca Nahuatl, nch Ethnologue entry for Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, nhe Ethnologue entry for Western Huasteca Nahuatl, nhw Ethnologue entry for Guerrero Nahuatl, ngu Ethnologue entry for Huaxcaleca Nahuatl, nhq Ethnologue entry for Isthmus-Cosoleacaque Nahuatl, nhk

Ethnologue entry for Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl, nhx Ethnologue entry for Isthmus-Pajapan Nahuatl, nhp Ethnologue entry for Michoacán Nahuatl, ncl Ethnologue entry for Morelos Nahuatl, nhm Ethnologue entry for Northern Oaxaca Nahuatl, nhy Ethnologue entry for Ometepec Nahuatl, nht Ethnologue entry for Orizaba Nahuatl, nlv Ethnologue entry for Santa María la Alta Nahuatl, nhz Ethnologue entry for Tabasco Nahuatl, nhc Ethnologue entry for Temascaltepec Nahuatl, nhv Ethnologue entry for Tenango Nahuatl, nhi Ethnologue entry for Tetelcingo Nahuatl, nhg Ethnologue entry for Tlalitzlipa Nahuatl, nhj Ethnologue entry for Tlamacazapa Nahuatl, nuz

Anagrams

• Nathu La