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​The creation of a dictionary in the Nahuat language is imperative, because:
All Nahuatspeakers are elderly.
In El Salvador there is not much bibliography in Nahuat.

The dictionary to be produced will be the first made by a Nahuat speaker, Nantzin Sixta Pérez, and will be the first to focus on a single dialectal variant (Witzapan). It is worth mentioning that this is the variant with the largest number of speakers in El Salvador (approximately 57). It is also the variant that has been documented audiovisually in the Timumachtikan Nawat project. The aforementioned dialectal variant is the one we teach in the Ne Ichan Safoura Scholarship Program.

With the creation of this dictionary, for the first time, the knowledge of the Nahuatspeaking elders will be dignified and recognized. It is of great importance that the dialectal variants be recognized in their own right. The currently available written material makes an agglutination of all the dialectal variants of the country, causing confusion amongst its readers.

Let us remember that in El Salvador there is not much bibliography in Nahuat and the little that there is, has been written by foreign authors. It is imperative that Salvadorans also produce Salvadoran texts in Nahuat, which would have much more weight, since there is no one better to document and transmit knowledge, than those same Salvadorans who have intimate knowledge of their language, cosmovision, and oral traditions of their land.

​Timumachtikan Nawat! Let's learn Nahuat!

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Timumachtikan Nawat is a project that has been created in order to revitalize the Nahuat culture and language. This project has been created in order to revitalize the Nahuat culture and language. Founded by Héctor Martínez.
Náhuat of El Salvador is the country's last living indigenous language and is at serious risk of disappearing since it has less than 200 native speakers. That is why it is essential to adopt safeguard measures for the language's preservation, dissemination, and respect.
Note that Náhuat and Náhuatl are two different languages. However, they are related. Náhuatl is spoken in México and Náhuat in El Salvador.

Music on video by artist and shaman, Wendi Morrison / Mercury 5.
Song, "Star" from "Songs to Traverse the End of the World As We Know It" album.
Full album, wendimorrison.bandcamp.com
Wendi Morrison, makeartnotwar.org/wendimorrison

Video by TimumachtikanNawat + MakeArtNotWar.

This activity is supported by 501c3 NonProfit for the Arts, MakeArtNotWar.org.

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