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Nahuatl

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1. Nahuatl - Noun

2. Nahuatl - Proper noun

Meaning

the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahuatl

a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico

Source: WordNet

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According to Díaz, she spoke to emissaries from Moctezuma in their native tongue Nahuatl and pointed to Cortés as the chief Spaniard to speak for them. Source: Internet

A number of town names are hybrids of Nahuatl and Spanish. Source: Internet

Certain fig species (mainly F. cotinifolia, F. insipida and F. padifolia) are traditionally used in Mesoamerica to produce papel amate ( Nahuatl : āmatl). Source: Internet

His grammar sketch of the Milpa Alta dialect of Nahuatl was not published during his lifetime, but it was published posthumously by Harry Hoijer The Milpa Alta dialect of Aztec (with notes on the Classical and the Tepoztlan dialects). Source: Internet

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC Although the form of government is often referred to as an empire, in fact most areas within the empire were organized as city-states, known as altepetl in Nahuatl. Source: Internet

In 1928 he first presented a paper at the International Congress of Americanists in which he presented his translation of a Nahuatl document held at the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Source: Internet

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