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Nawat (Nāwat, Nāwataketsalis (Náhuat))
Native to: El Salvador
Region: Sonsonate, Ahuachapán, La Libertad, San Salvador
Ethnicity: 11,100 Pipils (2005 census)
Native speakers: 500 (2015)
Language family: Uto-Aztecan
is a Uto-Toltec or Uto-Nahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan family. It was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America before the Spanish conquest, but now is mostly confined to western El Salvador. It has been on the verge of extinction in El Salvador and has already gone extinct elsewhere in Central America, but as of 2012 new second-language speakers are starting to appear.
In El Salvador, Nawat was the language of several groups: Nonualcos, Cuscatlecos, Izalcos and is known to be the Náhua variety of migrating Toltec. The name Pipil for this language is used by the international scholarly community, chiefly to differentiate it more clearly from Nahuatl. In this article the name Nawat will be used whenever there is no risk of ambiguity.
Most authors refer to this language by the names Nawat or Pipil. However, Nawat (along with the synonymous Eastern Nahuatl) has also been used to refer to Nahuatl language varieties in southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas, states in the south of Mexico, that like Pipil have reduced the earlier /t͡ɬ/ consonant (a lateral affricate) to a /t/. Those Mexican lects share more similarities with Nawat than do the other Nahuatl varieties.
Pipil specialists (Campbell, Fidias Jiménez, Geoffroy Rivas, King, Lemus, and Schultze, inter alia) generally treat Pipil/Nawat as a separate language, at least in practice. Lastra de Suárez (1986) and Canger (1988) classify Pipil among "Eastern Periphery" dialects of Nahuatl.
LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawat_language
http://tushik.org/english/what-is-nawat/
https://omniglot.com/writing/pipil.htm
http://www.native-languages.org/pipil.htm
https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mward/nawat/general/html/intro_eng.html
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