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Nahuatl is a language spoken by many of the native people, including the Aztecs, in what is now Mexico. It is still the most important Indian language in the country. Its 1.5 million speakers live mainly in the states of Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo, and Guerrero. Almost all but the most elderly speakers of Nahuatl are professional, having a working knowledge of the Spanish language. In general, modern Nahuatl shows strong influences from Spanish.
Nahuatl belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family, which also includes the languages spoken by the Comanche, Pima, Shoshone, Toltecs and other tribes of western North America. It is an agglutinative, flexive language. In Nahuatl there is no fixed difference between phrases or words, there are no infinitives, and no proper pronouns. There is no word for “I”, instead one refers to oneself as “my skin”.
Nahuatl has been described as a language that is pure etymology. A Nahuatl word always consists of a prefix, then several root concepts, and a suffix. One can put as many root concepts, each one a syllable, as necessary, so some Nahuatl words are very long. It means also, that words can be created on the fly.
Nahuatl words adopted into English include “avocado”, “axolotl”, “chocolate”, “coyote”, “ocelot”, “peyote”, and “tomato”.
At the time of the Spanish conquest, Aztec writing used mostly pictographs supplemented with a few ideograms. This was adequate for keeping such records as genealogies, astronomical information, and tribute lists, but could not represent a full vocabulary of spoken language in the way that the writing systems of the old world or of the Maya civilization do. The Spanish introduced the Roman script and recorded a large body of Aztec prose and poetry. Thus, Nahuatl written in Roman script is pronounced as if it were Spanish with a few exceptions.
