Nahuatlann.adj.

1897 Science 6 513/1 The characters, particularly of the skull, differ from those of the Aztec or Nahuatlan.

1947 Amer. Antiq. 13 68 These lands were occupied by such peoples as the Cuitlatecos,..Nahuatlans, Cuauhcomecos, and Xilotlantzincos.

1900 Mexico (U.S. Bureau Amer. Republics) 25 Keeping the Piman as a separate family leaves the Nahuatlan free to include only Pimentel's Mexicana.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 374/1 The [linguistic] families of..Middle America..:—..Nahuatlan, Mex.; Otomitlan [etc.].

1993 Columbia Encycl. (ed. 5) (Electronic ed.) at Native American Languages Uto-Aztecan has such subdivisions..as Nahuatlan, whose languages are spoken in Mexico and parts of Central America.

1897 W. J. McGee in G. B. Goode Smithsonian Instit. 382 In certain groups, notably the Nahuatlan and Mayan, pictography was so well advanced at the time of the discovery that the symbols were conventionalized.

1916 H. B. Alexander in L. H. Gray & G. F. Moore Mythol. All Races X. vi. 126 The legend of the bearded white men in the far north is interesting, both as recalling the Nahuatlan myths of Quetzalcoatl, and for its suggested reminiscence of the Northmen.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 A Uto-Aztecan family has been proposed..to include..the great Nahuatlan family in Mexico, including Aztec... Beside Nahuatlan, we may mention the Mayan family in Yucatan.

1996 P. T. Furst in People of Peyote 47 In contrast to the Nahuatlan languages, Cora and Huichol..are syntactically, morphologically and..grammatically, very distant from Classic Nahuatl.