Michoacán Nahuatl

Nahuatl variety of Mexico

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Michoacán Nahuatl

Pómaro Nahuatl
Native to| Mexico
Region| Maruata Pómaro, Michoacán

Native speakers

| (3,000 cited 1990 census)[1]

Language family

Uto-Aztecan

* Aztecan (Nahuan)
* Nahuatl
* Western Peripheral Nahuatl
* Michoacán Nahuatl

Language codes
ISO 639-3| `ncl`
Glottolog| `mich1245`

Michoacán Nahuatl is the name given to a variety of Nahuatl language spoken by the Nahua Michoacan on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in Michoacán. It is a dialect of Nahuatl, a language of the Uto-Aztecan family. It is the westernmost extant variant of this language, although the Uto-Aztecan family is spread further north, central, south and east. It has around 9,000 speakers which mainly reside in rural communities in the municipalities of Aquila, Apatzingán Pomaro and Maruata in Michoacán de Ocampo, which coexist with the Purepecha language speakers. The Michoacan Nahuatl is one of many Nahua dialects, notably with regard to the central dialects which include tl in certain words, usually Michoacan. For example, the word for "man" in Central Nahuatl is tlacatl, whereas in Michoacan Nahuatl it is lacal.

## References

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1. ^ Michoacán Nahuatl at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Michoacán Nahuatl test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

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Uto-Aztecan languages

Northern|

| Numic|

| Western|

* Northern Paiute (including Bannock)
* Mono

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Central|

* Shoshoni (including Gosiute)
* Comanche
* Timbisha

Southern|

* Colorado River (Chemehuevi, Southern Paiute, Ute)
* Kawaiisu

Takic|

* Nicoleño?

| Serran|

* Serrano
* Vanyume
* Kitanemuk
* Tataviam
* Tongva

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Cupan|

* Cahuilla
* Cupeño
* Luiseño-Juaneño

Other|

* Hopi
* Tübatulabal

Southern|

| Tepiman|

| Pimic|

* Oʼodham
* Pima Bajo

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Tepehuan|

* Northern Tepehuan
* Southern Tepehuan
* Tepecano

Tarahumaran|

* Huarijio
* Upriver Huarijio
* Downriver Huarijio
* Tarahumara
* Tubar

Opatan|

* Eudeve
* Opata

Cahita|

* Yaqui
* Mayo

Corachol|

* Cora
* Huichol
* Guachichil?

Aztecan|

| Nahuatl|

| Central|

* Classical Nahuatl
* Morelos Nahuatl
* Tetelcingo Nahuatl
* Tlaxcala–Puebla Nahuatl
* Central Puebla Nahuatl
* Guerrero Nahuatl
* Ometepec Nahuatl
* Coahuila Nahuatl

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Huasteca|

* Huasteca Nahuatl

Western|

* Michoacán Nahuatl
* Coatepec Nahuatl
* Pochutec
* Temascaltepec Nahuatl
* Durango Nahuatl
* Cazcan?

Eastern|

* Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
* Tehuacan–Zongolica Nahuatl
* Orizaba Nahuatl
* Isthmus Nahuatl
* Tabasco Nahuatl
* Pipil

Other|

* Nahuatl language in the United States

History|

* Proto-Uto-Aztecan
* Proto-Nahuan
* List of extinct Uto-Aztecan languages

Italics indicate extinct languages

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