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    The Nahuan or Aztecan languages are those languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family that have undergone a sound change, known as Whorf's law, that...
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  • which the modern Nahuan languages have developed. There is some controversy about where and when Proto-Nahuan was spoken. Following Nahuan ethnohistorical...
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    Mexico. The name of the language family was created to show that it includes both the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan)...
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    encompasses a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects within the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The Mexican Instituto Nacional...
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  • was largely displaced by Spanish and evolved into some of the modern Nahuan languages in use today (other modern dialects descend more directly from other...
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    for example for the Mixtecan, Zapotecan and Nahuan linguistic groups, which all contain distinct languages that are nonetheless referred to by a single...
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  • Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan...
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  • Proto-Nahuan languages emerged around 500 CE and were in contact with the Corachol languages, including the Cora language and Huichol language as its...
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    this family. Later, some Nahuan languages have changed this /tɬ/ to /l/ or back to /t/, but it can still be seen that the language went through a /tɬ/ stage...
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    branch: Cora and Huichol Nahuan branch: Nahuatl, Nahuan dialects Na-Dene languages: Lipan, Mezcalero, Chiricahua, Western Apache Language families with all known...
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  • It explains the origin in the Nahuan languages of the phoneme /tɬ/ which is not found in any of the other languages of the Uto-Aztecan family. The existence...
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  • Pochutec is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuan (or Aztecan) branch which was spoken in and around the town of Pochutla on the Pacific coast...
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  • with the Caribbean Indians (Amerindians, who had diverse languages called Caribbean languages), thus originated the black Caribs who dominated the Island...
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  • Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuan language spoken by over a million people in the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, centered in the states of Hidalgo (Eastern)...
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  • Possessive affix (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    express the phrase "we two's many houses" in one word[1]. Mayan languages and Nahuan languages also have possessive prefixes. Finnish uses possessive suffixes...
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    Pipil people (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Nawat language, which belongs to the Nahuan language branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The Nawat language is distinct from the Nahuatl language, as...
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  • Mexicanero is the Nahuan language spoken by the Mexicanero people of southern Durango and northern Nayarit. It has around 1000 speakers in the remote...
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    Nahuas (category Articles with text in Nahuatl languages)
    many groups that did not necessarily share a common identity. Their Nahuan languages, or Nahuatl, consist of many variants, several of which are mutually...
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  • The Guerrero Nahuatl language is a Nahuan language spoken by about 125,000 people in Mexico. It is also known as Guerrero Aztec and Náhuatl de Guerrero...
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  • The Tlaxcala-Puebla Nahuatl language, also known as Central Nahuatl, is a Nahuan language spoken by 40,000 people in central Mexico. It is variously known...
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    extinct languages: Nahuat The Nahuat language was spoken on the Atlantic coast, mainly in Rivas Department, by the Nicarao people. It is a Nahuan language, closely...
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  • Saltillo (linguistics) (category Pages with Nahuatl languages IPA)
    by the early grammarians of Classical Nahuatl. In a number of other Nahuan languages, the sound cognate to the glottal stop of Classical Nahuatl is [h]...
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    the few languages in the Mesoamerica without a phonemic glottal stop (a distinction shared by the Huave language and by some Nahuan languages). It lacks...
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    Aztecs (category Pages with Nahuatl languages IPA)
    the branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages (also sometimes called the Uto-Nahuan languages) that includes the Nahuatl language and its closest relatives Pochutec...
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  • Proto-Iroquoian Proto-Uto-Aztecan Proto-Nahuan Proto-Mayan Proto-Mixe–Zoquean language Proto-Totonacan language Proto-Na-Dené Proto-Athabaskan Proto-Oto-Manguean [es]...
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  • Bacillus haemolytic enterotoxin Nahuatl Huasteca Eastern (Hidalgo), a Nahuan language form in Mexico. See Huasteca Nahuatl New Home Economics, a household...
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  • variety of Nahuatl language spoken by the Nahua Michoacan on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in Michoacán. It is a dialect of Nahuatl, a language of the Uto-Aztecan...
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  • the language of the Nahuas Nahuan languages, a subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan languages, including Nahuatl Nahua, or Yaminawa language, a language of Peru...
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    Numic language (Uto) dialect chain that stretches from southeastern California, along the Colorado River to Colorado and the Nahuan languages (Aztecan)...
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  • Benjamin Lee Whorf (category Linguists of Mesoamerican languages)
    he related to the history of the glottal stop and vowel length in Nahuan languages. This work was prepared for publication by Lyle Campbell and Frances...
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