Nahuatl is a Uto-Aztecan language of central Mexico and the language once spoken by the Aztecs, whose empire made it a lingua franca across Mesoamerica. Today it survives as a cluster of modern varieties spoken by well over a million people, chiefly in the states of Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero and Mexico. The varieties differ considerably, and speakers from distant regions may not understand one another easily. Nahuatl has been written in the Latin alphabet since the sixteenth century, when missionary grammars and a substantial colonial literature were produced. English borrowed several words from it via Spanish, including tomato, chocolate, avocado and coyote. Mexico recognises Nahuatl among its national indigenous languages, and revitalisation programmes teach it in some schools, though Spanish dominates public life.
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