Nawat language

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Nawat
Nāwat, Nāwataketsalis (Náhuat)
Native to	El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chiapas, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica[1][2][3][4][5]
Region	Sonsonate, Ahuachapán, La Libertad, San Salvador, Escuintla, Rivas, Chinandega, Jinotega, Nueva Segovia, Masaya, Matagalpa, Guanacaste, Olancho
Ethnicity	11,100 Pipils (2005 census),[6] 20,000+ Nicaraos
Native speakers	500 (2015)[6]
Language family	Uto-Aztecan Southern Uto-Aztecan Aztecan (Nahuan) General Aztec Eastern Nawat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ppl
Glottolog	pipi1250
ELP	Pipil
Pipil is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan family.^[7] Before Spanish colonization it was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America, most notably El Salvador and Nicaragua, but now is mostly confined to western El Salvador.^[3] It has been on the verge of extinction in El Salvador, and has already gone extinct elsewhere in Central America. In 2012, a large number of new Nawat speakers started to appear. As of today, the language is currently going through a revitalization.

In El Salvador, Nawat (Nahuat) was the language of several groups: Nonualcos, Cuscatlecos, Izalcos and is known to be the Nahua variety of migrating Toltec. The name Pipil for this language is mostly used by the international scholarly community to differentiate it more clearly from Nahuatl. In Nicaragua it was spoken by the Nicarao people who split from the Pipil around 1200 CE when they migrated south. Nawat became the lingua franca there during the 16th century.^[8] A hybrid form of Nahuat-Spanish was spoken by many Nicaraguans up until the 19th century.^[9][10][11] The Nawat language was also spoken in Chiapas by Toltec settlers who inhabited the region for hundreds of years before migrating further into Central America.^{[12][3][13][14][15]}