[Aztlan] Fw: El Salvador - Nahuas

[John F. Schwaller]

That is a very good question, and to the best of my knowledge we don't
have any exact figures to offer.  When the Mexica arrived in Anahuac the
existing city-states were speaking Nahuatl.  This leads one to conclude at
at Tula, folks were also speaking Nahuatl since the main states, Texcoco
and Culhuacan, trace their lineage back to Tula.  Beyond that point things
become a great deal more conjectural.



> If the Aztecs did not arrive in Mexico until the 12th century, who were
> those who were speaking nahuatl in Mexico and how long had they been
> speaking it before the Pipil migration started in 800 CE? How far back did
> nahuatl speakers exist in Mexico?
>
> Larry P
>
>

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