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Nahuatl
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Nahuatl

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Market scene at Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The name Huehuetenango derives from the Nahuatl language and means ‘city of the ancients’. The production of a variety of ceramic pots and vessels is an important local industry.

Any of a group of Mesoamerican Indian peoples (Mexico and Central America), of which the best-known group were the Aztecs. The Nahuatl are the largest ethnic group in Mexico, and their languages, which belong to the Uto-Aztecan (Aztec-Tanoan) family, are spoken by over a million people today.



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