The Nawat language, also called Nahuat and Pipil, is an Indigenous language of El Salvador with 500 native speakers and 3,000 learners. It is a cousin of Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire.

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More from Wikipedia: "Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nicarao) is a UtoToltec or UtoNahuan language native to Central America. It is the southernmost extant member of the UtoAztecan family. It was spoken in several parts of presentday Central America before the Spanish conquest but now is mostly confined to western El Salvador. It has been on the verge of extinction in El Salvador and has already gone extinct elsewhere in Central America, but as of 2012 new secondlanguage speakers are starting to appear. In El Salvador, Nawat was the language of several groups: Nonualcos, Cuscatlecos, Izalcos, and is known to be the Náhua variety of migrating Toltec. The name Pipil for this language is used by the international scholarly community, chiefly to differentiate it more clearly from Nahuatl. In this article, the name Nawat will be used whenever there is no risk of ambiguity."

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