Highland Puebla Nahuatl

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Highland Puebla Nahuatl
Spoken in: México (Puebla)
Total speakers: 125,00 (1983)
Language family: American
 Uto-Aztecan
  Southern Uto-Aztecan
   Aztecan
    General Aztec
     Aztec
      Highland Puebla Nahuatl 
Writing system: Latin alphabet 
Official status
Official language in: None
Regulated by: none
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: azz
ISO 639-3: azz – 

Highland Puebla Nahuatl is one of the indigenous Nahuatl language variants, spoken by ethnic Nahua people in northwestern Puebla state in Mexico. Also known as: Náhuat de la Sierra de Puebla, Sierra Puebla Náhuatl, Sierra Aztec, Zacapoaxtla Náhuat, and Mejicano de Zacapoaxtla. The language is characterized by being nontonal, having affixes and having long words.[1]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ See entry in Ethnologue for "Nahuatl, Northern Highland" (Gordon 2005).

[edit] References

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (online version), Fifteenth edition, Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097. Retrieved on 2007-05-25.