Geographical distribution of Nahuan languages by number of first- and second-language speakers.
The Nahuatl language in the United States is spoken primarily by Mexican immigrants from indigenous communities and Chicanos who study and speak Nahuatl as L2. Despite the fact that there is no official census of the language in the North American country, it is estimated that there are around 140,800 Nahuatl speakers.[citation needed] During the last decades, the United States has carried out many educational initiatives aimed at teaching Nahuatl as a language of cultural heritage.[1]
Thanks to first-hand sources collected over several decades, it is known that there are Nahua communities in the cities of Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and Riverside, with the first two (known as the "Nahua migratory capital cities"[2] since they were established as international referents of the Nahua region since the 1980s) where community networks have been consolidated.[3][4] In California, Nahuatl is the fourth indigenous language of Mexico that is most present in the state's agriculture, behind Mixtec, Zapotec and Triqui.[5]
The California Indigenous Farmworker Study (IFS) estimates based on the California Indigenous Community Survey (ICS) that, in rural areas of that state alone, there are about 165,000 Mexicans who speak an indigenous language from the states of Oaxaca (Zapotec, Mixtec, Mazatec, Mixe, Triqui), Guerrero (Nahuatl, Mixtec, Tlapaneco, Amuzgo), Puebla (Nahuatl, Totonac) and Michoacán (Purepecha, Nahuatl), mainly. However, the number of speakers of each language is not specified and the speaking population in urban areas is not included.[6]
^"Nahuatl Across Borders (El Náhuatl Cruzando Fronteras)" (PDF). Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies.
^Nahuas en Estados Unidos. "Capitales migratorias" de una región indígena del sur de México. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte. 11 January 2019. ISBN 9789703253302.
^"Migraciones indígenas del sur de México: viajeros y norteños nahuas".
^Forte, Maximilian Christian (2010). Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-first Century. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-0102-1.
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of Nahuatl remain in El Salvador. It is suggested that the Nahua peoples originated near Aridoamerica, in regions of the present day Mexican states of...
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changed substantially over time. Major regional languages like Elamite, Sogdian, Koine Greek, or Nahuatlin ancient, post-classical and early modern times...
then the last syllable is stressed. Borrowings from other languages such as Spanish or Nahuatl are often stressed as inthe original languages. An important...
language is Wixárika. The Wixáricas speak a language of the Wixarikan group that is closely related to theNahuatl group. Furthermore, they have received Mesoamerican...
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