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Nahua

Indian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztec are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, practicing shifting cultivation and working both common and private land. They are skilled weavers, using fibres of the maguey plant, wool, and cotton. Nahua parents and godparents have strong ties in a fictive kin relationship. Though they profess Roman Catholicism, the Nahua believe in witchcraft and recognize a variety of supernatural beings. See also Nahuatl language.

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Archaeology Dictionary: Nahua

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General term for a succession of societies occupying central Mexico, the latest of which were Aztec.

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Nahua
Total population
1,500,000
Regions with significant populations
Mexico Oaxaca, Morelos, Puebla, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Veracruz, Jalisco, Estado de México, Distrito Federal, Tlaxcala, Durango and Guerrero
Language(s)
Nahuatl and Spanish
Religion(s)
Christianity (Predominantly Roman Catholic)
Related ethnic groups
Indigenous people of the Americas

This article is about Nahua people of Mexico. For the indigenous language of Peru also called Nahua, Yora or Yoranahua, see Yora language.

The Nahua are a group of indigenous peoples of Mexico. Their language of Uto-Aztecan affiliation is called Nahuatl and consists of many more dialects, some not mutually intelligible at all.

The Nahua peoples are supposed to have originated in southwestern United States split off from the other Uto-Aztecan peoples and migrated into central Mexico at some point around 2000 BCE. They settled in and around the Basin of Mexico and spread to become the dominant people in central Mexico. Some important Mesoamerican civilizations were of Nahua ethnicity, for example the Aztec culture as well as the Tepaneca, Acolhua, Tlaxcalteca, and Xochimilca, and many more. Some speculate a presence of Nahuan cultural groups in the ancient citystate of Teotihuacán.

Number of Nahuatl speakers per state

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