Orizaba Nahuatl

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Orizaba Nahuatl
Spoken in: Veracruz
Total speakers: 120,000 (1991 SIL)
Language family: American
 Uto-Aztecan
  Southern Uto-Aztecan
   Aztecan
    General Aztec
     Aztec
      Orizaba Nahuatl 
Writing system: Latin alphabet 
Official status
Official language in: None
Regulated by: none
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: nlv
ISO 639-3: nlv – 

Orizaba Nahuatl is a native American language spoken in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz mostly in the area to the south of the city of Orizaba.[1] It is also known as Orizaba Aztec and Náhuatl de la Sierra de Zongolica. It has 79% intelligibility with Morelos Nahuatl. There is a dialect called Ixhuatlancillo Nahuatl which is spoken in a town to the north of Orizaba. There are several primary schools and one secondary school which use this language along with Spanish. [2]


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ [1], Orizaba Nawatl, SIL-México, retrieved 19 Nov, 2007
  2. ^ Ethnologue, Orizaba Nahuatl, retrieved May 25, 2007