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Pipil (natively Nawat) is a Uto-Aztecan language which is similar to Nahuatl, and which was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America before the Spanish conquest. Although it has been on the verge of extinction in western El Salvador and has already gone extinct elsewhere in Central America, as of 2012, new second language speakers are starting to appear. In El Salvador, Nawat was the language of several tribes: Nonualcos, Cuscatlecos, Mazahuas, and Izalcos. 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. ==Status and classification== Most authors refer to this language by the names ''Pipil'' or ''Nawat''. However, ''Nawat'' (along with the synonymous ''Eastern Nahuatl'') has also been used to refer to Nahuatl language varieties in southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas, states in the south of Mexico, that like Pipil have reduced the earlier /t͡ɬ/ consonant (a lateral affricate) to a /t/.〔Ligorred, E: ''Lenguas Indígenas de México y Centroamérica''〕 These Mexican lects share more similarities with Nawat than do the other Nahuatl varieties. Pipil specialists (Campbell, Fidias Jiménez, Geoffroy Rivas, King, Lemus, and Schultze, ''inter alia'') generally treat Pipil/Nawat as a separate language, at least in practice. Lastra de Suárez (1986) and Canger (1988) classify Pipil among "Eastern Periphery" dialects of Nahuatl. ''Classification of Pipil/Nawat'' (Campbell 1985) *Uto-Aztecan * *Southern Uto-Aztecan * * *Nahuan (Aztecan, Nahuatlan) * * * *Pochutec ''(extinct)'' * * * *General Aztec * * * * *Core Nahua * * * * *Pipil Uto-Aztecan is uncontroversially divided into eight branches, including Nahuan. Research continues into verifying higher level groupings. However, the grouping adopted by Campbell of the four southernmost branches may not yet be generally accepted. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pipil language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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