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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#x1)
- «Chocolate» comes from a Nahuatl word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#x2)
- About 1.5 million people in Mexico speak Nahuatl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#x3)
- «Tomatl» is the Nahuatl word for tomato. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#x4)
- Nahuatl was written in pictures before the Spanish came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#x5)
- Some Mexican place names come from Nahuatl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/#x6)

### 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

[Every meaning and example of «nahuatl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nahuatl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.