Nahuatlan

American  

[nah-waht-luhn] / ˈnɑ wɑt lən /

noun

1. Nahuatl in all its dialects, often taken as a group of languages, spoken in large areas of central Mexico and El Salvador and in various small, widely dispersed areas throughout southern Mexico and Central America.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Nahuatl or Nahuatlan.

Etymology

Origin of Nahuatlan

First recorded in 1900–05; Nahuatl + -an

Example Sentences

In Mexico and Central America interest is centred chiefly in two great ethnical groups—the Nahuatlan and Huaxtecan—whose cultural, historical, and even geographical relations are so intimately interwoven that they can scarcely be treated apart.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

For example, Buschmann has thrown the Shoshonean and Nahuatlan families into one.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley