Nawat

E911332

Nawat is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language of El Salvador, traditionally spoken by the Pipil people and now the focus of revitalization efforts.

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Nawat canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American language
Uto-Aztecan language
endangered language
indigenous language
minority language
closelyRelatedTo Classical Nahuatl
Mexican Nahuatl varieties
continent North America
country El Salvador
ethnicGroup Pipil
linked to: Pipil people
hasAlternativeName Nawat Pipil
Nawat of El Salvador
Náhuat
Pipil
linked to: Pipil people

Pipil Nawat
hasGlottocode pipi1250
hasISOCode ppl
hasLanguageAcademy none official at state level
hasLinguasphereCode 82-ADA-a
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
polysynthetic tendencies
suffixal inflection
verbal prefixation
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottal stop phoneme
hasSyntacticFeature basic word order VSO
flexible word order
historicalPeriod pre-Columbian era to present
historicalRegion Pipil territory
languageBranch Southern Uto-Aztecan
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
languageSubgroup Nahuan
lexicalSimilarityWith Nahuatl
region Ahuachapán Department
La Libertad Department
Sonsonate Department
western El Salvador
revitalization subject of language revitalization programs
taught in community-based courses
used in some local schools
spokenIn El Salvador
status critically endangered
severely endangered
subclassOf Nahuan language
linked to: Nahuan languages
traditionalSpeakers Pipil people
usedIn local toponyms
ritual contexts
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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