Also spoken in United States

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ISO 639-3:

nhe

Nahuatl, Eastern Huasteca (ISO 639-3: nhe) is also spoken in United States by a user population of 83,000 (2022, based on ethnicity) according to Joshua Project: https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/18852/US. For the United States it is classified as non-indigenous and it is taught in some universities as a heritage language, e. g. the University of Texas at Austin: Nahuatl | COERLL (utexas.edu) & Nahuatl | College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin (utexas.edu). As for location, there are Nahuatl speakers in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and Riverside, this according to Nahuatl migration studies: https://ru.micisan.unam.mx/handle/123456789/21056 & https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/rutasdecampo/article/download/925...

Editorial Action

We will add Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl [nhe] as a language in the United States, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

Comments

Chuck Fennig, Thu, 2023-01-19 13:42

Dear Antoine,

Thank you for this information for Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl spoken in the United States.

Best wishes,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue