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Nahuatl, Guerrero

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3ngu

Population  150,000 (1998 SIL).
Region  Balsas River: Tepecoacuilco de Trujano, Huitzuco de los figueroa, Atenango del Río, Copalillo, Mártir de Cuilapan, Zitlala, Tixtla de Guerrero, Mochitlán, Quechultenango, Chiulapa de Álvarez, Ahuacuotzingo, Olinalá, Atlixtac, Zapotitlan Tablas, Ayutla de los Libres, Cualác, Huamuxtitlán, Xochihuehuetlán, Tlapa de Comonfort, Alpoyeca, Xalpatláhuac, and Alcozauca de Guerrero municipalities.
Language map  Western Central Mexico, reference number 80
Alternate names   Guerrero Aztec, Náhuatl de Guerrero
Classification  Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Aztecan, General Aztec, Aztec
Language development  Videos. Dictionary. NT: 1987.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO; long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A.; MASON, David, authors. 1980. "The registration of transitivity in the Guerrero Aztec verb."

MASON, David, researcher. 2011. Vocabulario comparativo del náhuatl.

Vernacular Publications

Tiuelis titlajtlajtos náhuatl. 2003.  Available online