Coatepec Nahuatl is a variety of Nahuatl of southwestern

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and Guerrero spoken by 1,400 people.Nahuatl, Coatepec
Ethnologue, 1990, access date 24-03-2012

Language

It is also known as Coatepec Aztec and Náhuatl de Coatepec. The language is spoken in central Mexico along the border of Mexico and Guerrero states, west of

Iguala, Guerrero Iguala (), known officially as Iguala de la Independencia, is a historic city located from the state capital of Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero in southwestern Mexico. Geography The city of Iguala stands on Federal Highway 95 abo ...

. It is especially strong in

Coatepec Costales Coatepec ( Nahuatl for "at the snake hill") may refer to: Geography * Coatepec Harinas, a municipality in the State of Mexico *Coatepec, Puebla, a municipality in Puebla * Coatepec, Santiago Texcalcingo, a village in Santiago Texcalcingo, Oaxaca * ...

and Chilacachapa, and is spoken as far west as

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and

Sultepec Sultepec is a municipality in the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipal seat is Sultepec de Pedro Ascencio de Alquisiras. The municipality covers an area of 552.52 km². The Spanish discovered silver lodes here in 1531, which started comm ...

. It is written in the Latin script and is predominantly spoken by older adults with 15 monolinguals. The ''General History of the Things of New Spain'' in the Florentine Codex, by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún was written in Coatepec Nahuatl and Spanish.

References

External links

* Nahuatl, Central Puebla Nahuatl {{Mexico-stub