nahuatl

«nahuatl» in Mova's school dictionary: the language of the Aztecs, still spoken today by over a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (Nahuatl); adjective (Nahuatl)

meaning for a pupil

Nahuatl is the language of the Aztecs, still spoken today by over a million people in Mexico. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in history lessons about the Aztecs and in word lessons: English words like chocolate, tomato, avocado and chilli come from Nahuatl.

examples

• The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl. tree →
• «Chocolate» comes from a Nahuatl word. tree →
• About 1.5 million people in Mexico speak Nahuatl. tree →
• «Tomatl» is the Nahuatl word for tomato. tree →
• Nahuatl was written in pictures before the Spanish came. tree →
• Some Mexican place names come from Nahuatl. tree →

note

A name of a language, so capital N. Say «NAH-wah-tl». It is not an English word, but it gave English several words.

Trees and pragmatics

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