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Nahuatl (['na.watɬ] is a term applied to a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. It is spoken by more than 1.5 million people in Mexico, and under the "Law of Linguistic Rights" Nahuatl is recognized as a "national language" which has the same "validity" in Mexico as Spanish and Mexico's other indigenous languages. Nahuatl is known outside of Mexico particularly because the Aztecs spoke Nahuatl, a variant now known as Classical Nahuatl. Find out more...