Also Known As:
Nahuat, Nawat, Nahuate, Náwat, Náhuat
Dialects & Varieties
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Tacuba
- Comasaguya
- Chiltiupán
- Concepción de Ataco
- Cuisnahuat
- Teotepeque
- Jicalapa
- Nahuizalco
- Izalco
- Mazaguat
IRIN Internacional ~ IRIN International website
Alan R. King, Monica Ward and the IRIN Institution. 2004. "IRIN Internacional ~ IRIN International Website." Online: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mward/irin/index.htm.
Speakers
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Ethnic or community population
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Comments on speakers
The Nawat Linguistic Seminar (Seminario Lingüistico de Náhuat--SLN) is working on a text-based corpus of Nawat, a lexical database, and workbooks for language-learners.
Location and Context
Countries
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Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
Instituto de la Recuperación del Idioma Náhuat (IRIN); Seminario Lingüistico de Náhuat (SLN); Tajkwiluyan Ipal ne Taketzalis (the office for the Nawat language)
Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Spanish
Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Comments on writing systems:
Several orthographies have been proposed in the past. SLN is currently working on a new orthography. Past suggestions and current Pipil speakers and students are being consulted to form an orthography that is as useful and accessible to as many people as possible.
Recent Resources
Wikipediaj: Ne Enciclopediaj Tik Nawat. Wikipedia in the Pipil (Nawat) language.
An article by Lyle Campbell about syntactic change in Pipil.
A 18th-century group of sermons or religious talks in the Pipil language on topics including John 6.