Michoacan Nahuatl

Michoacan Nahuatl ( Mexicano, Michoacan Aztec, Michoacán Nahuatl, Nahual de Michoacán, Pómaro Nahuatl ) is an isolated Nahuatl language spoken in the coastal settlement of Maruata Pomaro of the Pacific coast of Michoacan in Mexico. This is the most western version of this language, although the Uto-Astek family extends further north, center, south and east ^[1] . The language has about 9,000 speakers, who live mainly in rural communities of the municipalities of Aquila, Apatsingan, Maruata and Pomaro, Michoacan State (Michoacan de Ocampo) with native speakers of Purepecha . The Michoacan Nahuatl is one of the Nahua dialects in which the tl combination is present; in the Michoacan, usually l . For example, the word “man” is pronounced by the speakers of the central dialect as tl aca tl , and the speakers of the Michaoacan speak lacal ^[2] .