We share with you how to say the parts of the body in Nahuatl. This is part of an effort to recover an indigenous language whose use, although it has the largest number of speakers (around 1.5 million), is in decline due to the racism to which indigenous peoples have been subjected since the Conquest.
It should be noted that Nahuatl or Nahua is not a homogeneous language, since, according to the Cultural Information System (SIC), There are 30 variants with their respective self-designations.
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Nahuatl is spoken in 15 states of the Mexican Republic: City and State of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí, Guerrero, Colima, Morelos, Michoacán, Tabasco, Nayarit and Jalisco.
How do you say the parts of the body in Nahuatl?
Next We share with you how to say the parts of the body in Nahuatl according to Oswaldo Galicia Calderón, teacher and speaker of the Masewalkopa variant from Mexico City.
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- Head: you can say kwaitl or tsonteko
- Hair or hair:tsontle
- Skull: tsontekomatl
- face or face: you can say xayaktle or ixtle
- Eye: ixtelolohtle
- Eyelash: ixkempalle
- Ear: nakastle
- Nose: ekahtsolle
- Mouth: kamaktle
- Tooth: tlankochtle
- Neck: kechkwawkio
- Shoulder: ahkolle
- Arm: makwakio
- Hand: maitl
- Back: kwitlapantle
- Vertebral columnl: kwitlapankwakio
- Waist: tlahkotia
- Belly button. xiktle
- Leg: meetstle
- Knee: you can say tlankwate or tlankwaitl
- Calf: you can say kutstle or kutstamelle
- Toe: xopille
Tell us what other words you would like to learn in Nahuatl or in another of the 68 indigenous languages of Mexico.
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