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Language code: nah

Technical information about ISO 639 language code nah

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The table below provides technical details for the Nahuatl languages language, designated by the nah code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

nah

Name

Nahuatl languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Classical NahuatlCentral NahuatlHuasteca NahuatlEastern NahuatlWestern Peripheral NahuatlIsthmus Nahuatl
Related languages
Pipil (Nawat)PochutecCoraHuicholTarahumara
Key facts
Many everyday English words like “chocolate”, “tomato” and “avocado” come from NahuatlThe earliest grammars written for any New World language were produced for Classical Nahuatl in the 16th centuryNahuatl verbs use polysynthetic morphology that can express a whole sentence in one wordNouns have an absolutive form when unpossessed and change form when possessedThe language marks social hierarchy with a system of honorific suffixes
Sample phrase

Niltze, quēn tica?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Nahuatl languages language, identified by the code nah, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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