NHX ISO 639-3
Nahuatl, Isthmus-Mecayapan
Melaꞌtájto̱l Autonym
A language of Mexico
- ISO 639
- nhx
- Alternate Names
- Isthmus Aztec-Mecayapan, Isthmus Nahuat, Isthmus Nahuatl, Mecayapan Isthmus Nahuatl, Mejicano del Istmo, Mexicano, Nahuatl del Istmo, Náhuat de Mecayapan, Náhuatl, Náhuatl sur de Veracruz, Tatahuicapan Nahuatl
- Autonym
- Melaꞌtájto̱l
- Population
- 26,600 (2000 INALI). Total Nahuatl speakers: 1,650,000 (2020 INEGI).
- Location:
- Veracruz state: Mecayapan municipality, Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan towns.
- Language Status
- 5 (Developing).
- Classification
- Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Corachol-Aztecan, Core Nahua, Nahuatl
- Dialects
- None known. No intelligibility of Pipil [ppl] of El Salvador.
- Language Use
- Used by all.
- Language Development
- Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 2016.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Nahuatl, Isthmus-Mecayapan
- Writing
- Latin script [Latn].
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Veracruz state: Mecayapan municipality, Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan towns.
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