Western Huasteca Nahuatl
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Western Huasteca Nahuatl | ||
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Spoken in: | México (Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí) | |
Total speakers: | 400,000 (1991 SIL) | |
Language family: | American Uto-Aztecan Southern Uto-Aztecan Aztecan General Aztec Aztec Western Huasteca Nahuatl |
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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 – | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Western Huasteca Nauatl is a native American language spoken in central northern México. Also known as Western Huasteca Aztec, Náhuatl de Tamazunchale, Náhuatl de la Huasteca Occidenta. It has 85% intelligibility between Eastern and Western Huasteca Nahuatl. There is a dialect called Ixhuatlancillo Nahuatl. Some bible portions have been translated into it and there are also radio programs in this tongue. [1]
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- ^ Ethnologue, Western Huasteca Nauatl, retrieved May 25, 2007