Highland Puebla Nahuatl

Highland Puebla Nahuatl
Highland Puebla Nahuatl
Spoken in México (Puebla)
Native speakers 125,000  (1983)
Language family
Uto-Aztecan
  • Aztecan
    • General Aztec
Writing system Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 azz

Highland Puebla Nahuatl is one of the indigenous Nahuatl language variants, spoken by ethnic Nahua people in northwestern Puebla state in Mexico. Also known as: Náhuat de la Sierra de Puebla, Sierra Puebla Náhuatl, Sierra Aztec, Zacapoaxtla Náhuat, and Mejicano de Zacapoaxtla. The language is characterized by being nontonal, having affixes and having long words.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ See entry in Ethnologue for "Nahuatl, Northern Highland" (Gordon 2005).

References

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005) (online version). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth edition ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097. http://www.ethnologue.com. Retrieved 2007-05-25. 



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