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Pipil People
The Pipil are an Indigenous group of Mesoamerican people inhabiting the western and central areas of present-day El Salvador and Nicaragua. They are a subgroup of the larger Nahua ethnic group. They speak the Nawat language, which is a closely related but distinct language from the Nahuatl of Central Mexico. There are very few speakers of Nawat left, but there are efforts being made to revitalize it. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Pipil were also present around Escuintla, Guatemala and in various parts of Honduras. The Nawat language has already gone extinct in these countries, but there is a small population of acculturated Nahuas in eastern Honduras. Their cosmology is related to that of the Toltec, Maya and Lenca. History Indigenous accounts recorded by Spanish chronicler Gonzalo Francisco de Oviedo suggest that the Pipil of El Salvador migrated from present-day Mexico to their current locations beginning around the 8th century A.D. They traveled from curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipil Language
Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan family. Before Spanish colonization it was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America, most notably El Salvador and Nicaragua, 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. In 2012, a large number of new Nawat speakers started to appear. As of today, the language is currently going through a revitalization. In El Salvador, Nawat (Nahuat) was the language of several groups: Nonualcos, Cuscatlecos, Izalcos and is known to be the Nahua variety of migrating Toltec. The name ''Pipil'' for this language is mostly used by the international scholarly community to differentiate it more clearly from Nahuatl. In Nicaragua it was spoken by the Nicarao people who split from the Pipil around 1200 CE when they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipil Grammar
This article provides a grammar sketch of the Nawat or Pipil language, an endangered language spoken by the Pipils of western El Salvador and Nicarao people of Nicaragua. It belongs to the Nahuatl, Nahua group within the Uto-Aztecan language family. There also exists a brief Pipil language (typological overview), typological overview of the language that summarizes the language's most salient features of general typological interest in more technical terms. Sounds Basic phonemes and word stress *Realizations of the back vowel range between and , but the high vowel, higher vowel allophones predominate. *Historically there was phonemic vowel length in Nawat, that is, words could have different meanings depending on whether each vowel in them was long or short. This distinction may be extinct for present-day speakers. The voiced allophones of /k/, and , are common but their distribution is subject to both dialect variation and phonological rules (and their exceptions). The /n/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
