Nahuas

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/nahuas

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the nahuatl speaker population?Approximately 1.5 million native speakers, ranking third in the Americas
2. What is the estimated migration period?Around 500 CE into central Mexico from Aridoamerica
3. Who are the Nahuas?The Nahuas are a big Indigenous group in Mexico. They are the largest group of people who speak their own native language in North America.
4. What language do Nahuas speak?They speak Nahuatl, a language in the Uto-Aztecan family. About 1.5 million people speak it.

Aridoamerica: A cultural and ecological region spanning parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, characterized by arid and semi-arid conditions.
Basin of Mexico: A high-altitude valley in central Mexico that was the center of several major Mesoamerican civilizations, including the Aztec Empire.
Lingua Franca: A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.