Nahuatlan

American  

[nah-waht-luhn] / ˈnɑ wɑt lən /

noun

1. Nahuatl in all its dialects, often taken as a group of languages, spoken in large areas of central Mexico and El Salvador and in various small, widely dispersed areas throughout southern Mexico and Central America.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Nahuatl or Nahuatlan.

Etymology

Origin of Nahuatlan

First recorded in 1900–05; Nahuatl + -an

Example Sentences

In Mexico and Central America interest is centred chiefly in two great ethnical groups—the Nahuatlan and Huaxtecan—whose cultural, historical, and even geographical relations are so intimately interwoven that they can scarcely be treated apart.

From Project Gutenberg

Powers has recorded many of the myths of various stocks in California, and the old Spanish writings give us a fair collection of the Nahuatlan myths of Mexico, and Rink has presented an interesting volume on the mythology of the Innuits; and, finally, fragments of mythology have been collected from nearly all the tribes of North America, and they are scattered through thousands of volumes, so that the literature is vast.

From Project Gutenberg

These, however, are grouped into some twelve or more linguistic families, among whom may be mentioned in order of their numerical importance the Nahuatlan, Otomian, Zapotecan, Mayan, Tarascan, Totonacan, Piman, Zoquean, and others, including the Serian and the Athapascan, or Apache.

From Project Gutenberg

For example, Buschmann has thrown the Shoshonean and Nahuatlan families into one.

From Project Gutenberg

Several Nahuatlan words have been forgotten, and in making out my list of collections I had great difficulty in getting designations for some of the objects, for instance the word for “quiver,” and for the curious rattling anklets used by dancers.

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