Nahuatl is an ancient language spoken by our Mexica/Azteca ancestors. This language is far from dead and is in fact a vibrant living language. It is very important for us to learn Nahuatl because as long as we speak white languages (English and Spanish), we will think like white people. When you learn Nahuatl, you attain the world view of our ancestors and in this way can weed out the Eurocentric nonsense which is fed to us. Our Mexica elders believe that indigenous knowledge is in our genes; that we are born with the knowledge but that it takes an awakening process for this knowledge to come out; they say that learning Nahuatl is the most important step of this awakening process. Many people speak it today in Mexiko and Aztlan. Others such as the Hopi, speak languages which are related to Nahuatl and are therefore called Uto-Aztecan.

***An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl by Frances Kartutten now available for download! Right click and select "save target as" to download.

The following lessons come from a manual available for purchase through Universidad Nahuatl:

Martinez, Jorge Munguia. Manual Practico y Simplificado de Introduccion al Estudio del Idioma Nauatl. Associación Cultural Mascarones. Cuernavaca, Morelos: 1990.

 


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To contribute english translations of the Nahuatl lessons, please e-mail your translations to itztli@mexicauprising.net

 

*Now you can download a great new program based on the work of Joe Campbell that can translate either from english to nahuatl or nahuatl to english 11,377 different words! Simply download the following two files then install them onto your computer and you can find virtually any word in Nahuatl:


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download the word list
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