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]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ethnologue, Western Huasteca Nauatl, retrieved May 25, 2007
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