The Guerrero Nahuatl language is a
Nahuan language
The Nahuan or Aztecan languages are those languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family that have undergone a sound change, known as Whorf's law, that changed an original *t to before *a. Subsequently, some Nahuan languages have changed this to ...
spoken by 150,000 people in Mexico.
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Language
It is also known as Guerrero Aztec and Náhuatl de Guerrero. It is spoken in various municipalities of along the Balsas River including Tepecoacuilco de Trujano, Huitzuco de los figueroa, Atenango del Río, Copalillo, Mártir de Cuilapan, Zitlala, Tixtla de Guerrero, Mochitlán
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, Quechultenango, Chilapa de Álvarez, Ahuacuotzingo, Olinalá, Atlixtac, Zapotitlan Tablas, Ayutla de los Libres, Cualác, Huamuxtitlán, Xochihuehuetlán, Tlapa de Comonfort, Alpoyeca, Xalpatláhuac, and Alcozauca de Guerrero. It is written in the Latin script. There is some video material in addition to a dictionary in this language. It is a subject–verb–object ordered language. The words tend to be long with affixes and clitics. Guerrero Nahuatl is not tonal.
References
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External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
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*. Downloadable book in English or Spanish
* Náhuatl de Guerrero Nuevo Testamento, available at Lulu.com
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OLAC resources in and about the Guerrero Nahuatl language
Nahuatl, Guerrero
Nahuatl
Guerrero
Subject–verb–object languages
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Uto-Aztecan languages