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Nahuatl
Nahuatl ( ; hispanicized from Nawatl ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller populations in the United States. Nahuatl has been spoken in central Mexico since at least the seventh century AD. It was the language of the Mexica, who dominated what is now central Mexico during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history. During the centuries preceding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Azt
Uto-Aztecan
language family
Nawat
language of Central America
Numic
branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
Pochutec
language
Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
Eastern Peripheral variety of the Nahuatl language group
Mexicanero
language
Temascaltepec Nahuatl
language
Guerrero Nahuatl
language
Eudeve
extinct Uto-Aztecan language