Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Infobox Language
name=Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
region=Hidalgo, northern Puebla and northern Veracruz, Mexico
speakers=410,000 (as of 1991)
familycolor=American
fam1=Uto-Aztecan
fam2=Aztecan
fam3=General Aztec
fam4=Huasteca
script=Latin alphabet
iso2=nah
iso3=nhe

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuatl variety spoken by about 410,000 people (as of 1991)Ethnologue.] in the eastern part of the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, spread over 1,500 villages in the state of Hidalgo, the northern part of Veracruz and the extreme north of Puebla. [Kimball: p. 196.]

According to SIL's Ethnologue, there is 85% mutual intelligibility between Eastern and Western Huasteca Nahuatl. 50% of Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl speakers know no Spanish.

Phonology

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References

*cite book |author=Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) |year=2005 |chapter= [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nhe Nahuatl, Eastern Huasteca] |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=Fifteenth edition |location=Dallas, Tex. |publisher=SIL International
*cite journal |author=Kimball, Geoffrey |year=1990 |title=Noun Pluralization in Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=196–216 |doi=10.1086/466150

ee also

*Central Huasteca Nahuatl
*Southeastern Huasteca Nahuatl
*Western Huasteca Nahuatl