Guerrero Nahuatl is a member of the Aztecan (Nahuan) branch of the Uto-Aztecan language spoken. It is spoken by about 125,000 people in the state of Guerrro in west-central Mexico, particularly along the Balsas River valley in the municipalities of Tepecoacuilco de Trujano, Huitzuco de los figueroa, Atenango del Río, Copalillo, Mártir de Cuilapan, Zitlala, Tixtla de Guerrero, Mochitlán, Quechultenango, Chilapa de Álvarez, Ahuacuotzingo, Olinalá, Atlixtac, Zapotitlan Tablas, Ayutla de los Libres, Cualác, Huamuxtitlán, Xochihuehuetlán, Tlapa de Comonfort, Alpoyeca, Xalpatláhuac, and Alcozauca de Guerrero. There are also some speakers of Guerrero Nahuatl in other parts of Mexico and in the USA.
Guerrero Nahuatl is also known as Guerrero Aztec or Náhuatl de Guerrero. Native speakers call their language Mēxihcatlācatl or Nawatlahtohli. It is written with the Latin alphabet, and there is a translation of the Bible in the language.
Download an alphabet chart for Nahuatl (Excel)
Nemechtlajtlajtohuilis icuento sen tototl quetoch.
In tototl quetoch sen tlatzotzonquetl niman sanoyej cuelita yas campa ilhuipan para tlatzotzonas. Niman yejhua sanoyej pinahuaya pampa on itlaquen sanoyej teajman icolor.
Yejhua ica se tonajli oquijlij on tototl pichon:
—¿Tline xtinechtlanejtia on motlaquen para nictlalis? pampa itlachalis notlaquen sanoyej teajman niman nipinahua. Nipinahua pampa nejhua nochipa niau nontlatzotzona campa ilhuipan. Se favor timitztlajtlanilia. Xnechtlanejti para nictlalis aman tlayohua pampa yejhua on motlaquen sanoyej cualtetzin.
I'm going to tell you the story of the pigeon and the woodpecker.
The woodpecker was a musician, and he used to go and play at all the parties. But he felt sorry for himself because his clothes were a very sad color.
So one day he said to the pigeon:
Why don't you lend me your suit to wear? The color of mine is very sad, and it makes me sad; because I always go and play at parties. Please, I beg you to lend it to me to wear tonight, because yours is very pretty.
Source: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/55080
Information about Guerrero Nahuatl | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Guerrero Nahuatl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrero_Nahuatl
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicano_de_Guerrero
http://www.language-archives.org/language/ngu
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ngu
https://pueblosindigenas.es/lenguas/nahuatl-de-guerrero-costa-montana/
Comanche, Cora, Hopi, Huarijio, Huichol, Ivilyuat / Cahuilla, Kawaiisu, Luiseño, Mayo, Mono, O'odham, Nahuatl, Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca), Nahuatl (Guerrero), Nahuatl (Tetelcingo), Nawat (Pipil), Northern Paiute, Serrano, Shoshone, Southern Paiute, Tarahumara, Tepehuán (Northern), Tepehuán (Southeastern), Tepehuán (Southwestern), Timbisha, Tongva, Yaqui
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 30.04.25. Last modified: 30.04.25
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