nahuatl

• “Segal's La littérature nahuatl: sources, identitíes, représentations, in which he appears to have been influenced by Bierhorst.”

  Reinventing the Aztecs, part one

• “Zapata was born to a mestizo family who spoke nahuatl rather than Spanish.”

  Villa and Zapata ��� A History of the Mexican Revolution, Part 2: Villa and Zapata ��� the main players

• “For these ancient poets the essence of life was summed up in the phrase, “In Xochitl, In Cuicatl”, meaning “The flower, the song”, a nahuatl metaphor signifying the art of poetry, “The one true thing on earth”.”

  Mexico - flowers and flower art

• “The Spanish religious chronicler Fr. Antonio Tello, writing between 1650 and 1653, tells us that in 1531 Xitomatl was chief over a large Indian population, possibly speakers of Coca (a nahuatl dialect), around what is now San Juan Cosala.”

  Languages and place names of Lake Chapala, Mexico

• “The azteca language is used everyday - chocolate, tomato, metate, even the word yankee is a nahuatl word, it means stranger.”

  Training School for Reconquista

• “Our children are getting a good education they will come out of this school speaking english, spanish, mandarin, and nahuatl..”

  Aguilar Craps All Over Civil Rights Movement

• “The word yanqui is nahuatl for stranger - there was even a town on the borders of the Aztec domain called Yanquitlan.”

  Training School for Reconquista

• “When whites first ventured into Texas, the nahuatl dialect speaking Comanches referred to them as yanquis - strangers.”

  Training School for Reconquista

• “I did a search online and found an interview with a wrestler (from mexico city) and said the word "chilango" is a nahuatl word meaning "a person who comes from the clean place”

  �Chilango?

• “I seriously doubt it's a nahuatl word, because the derivation gets debated by scholars.”

  �Chilango?

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