How to Use Nahuatl in a Sentence

Nahuatl

noun

• Learning to speak a few sentences in Nahuatl was no small task for the company of actors.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
• The cactus appears in the Aztec codices and the name comes from a Nahuatl word that means a pot covered in spines.
  — Eyder Peralta, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
• Fernández hoped that seeing the extravagance of a pre-conquest world and hearing the poetic nature of the Nahuatl language helps to empower Latinos to feel pride in and learn more about their culture.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
• To do honor to the name of the production, Fernández included dialogue and musical numbers in Nahuatl— the work is mostly in English with some lines in Spanish.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
• Performed in English, Spanish and Nahuatl, with English and Spanish supertitles available throughout the performance.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
• Translated languages included Nahuatl, Extremaduran, and Kirundi.
  — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
• Guiding the playwright’s implementation of the Indigenous language was Cal State Northridge professor Fermín Herrera — one of the few experts in the continent on classical Nahuatl.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
• The spa El Capricho Spa occupies its own cliff ledge, 6,000 square feet carved into volcanic rock with treatment rooms named after local flowers in Nahuatl—Citlaxochitl (poinsettia), Texochitl (stone flower).
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
• León-Portilla wrote extensively about the conquest of Mexico from the Mexica viewpoint, documented the philosophy of Aztec intellectuals and analyzed poems in Nahuatl — the language of the Mexica empire.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
• Matthew Restall, for example, has worked indefatigably as a myth buster for dozens of misconceptions for roughly two decades now, and only recently did another historian, Camilla Townsend, stitch together the history of the Aztecs according to their own statements, as recorded in Nahuatl.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025