nahuatl
ナワトル語
解説 Definition
アステコ帝国で話されていた先住民言語に由来する言語。メキシコを中心に現在も約150万人以上が話す言語。
Nahuatl is a group of closely related Indigenous languages of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken chiefly in central Mexico. Varieties of Nahuatl were used in the Aztec Empire and continue to be spoken by Indigenous communities today.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
Nahuatl はメキシコの先住民諸言語を指す固有名なので、通常は大文字で書く。アステカ帝国で広く用いられ、現在も話者がいる言語として覚える。英語の chocolate、tomato、avocado などがスペイン語を介してナワトル語にさかのぼる点を結び付けると、歴史と現代性を同時に保持できる。
Remember Nahuatl as a living Indigenous language name, not merely as the language of a vanished empire. It was widely used in the Aztec world, and related varieties are still spoken in Mexico today. Connect it with familiar loanwords: English words such as chocolate and tomato ultimately came from Nahuatl, generally through Spanish. That path—Nahuatl to Spanish to English—makes its influence easy to visualize. Because it is the name of a language or language group, capitalize Nahuatl, just as you capitalize English or Spanish.
例文
Nahuatl was the official language of the Aztec Empire.
ナワトル語はアステカ帝国の公式言語だった。
Many Spanish words were borrowed from Nahuatl during the colonial period.
多くのスペイン語はコロニアル時代にナワトル語から借用された。
Nahuatl is still spoken today by indigenous communities throughout Mexico.
ナワトル語は今日、メキシコ全土の先住民コミュニティでまだ話されている。
nahuatl の類義語・関連語
派生語
紛らわしい語
nahuatl の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ナワトル語の自称 nāhuatl は「明瞭な声・良い音」を意味する語根 nahua- に由来する。「はっきり話す人々の言語」という誇りを込めた名称。chocolate, tomato 等多くの英単語がナワトル語起源。
The name Nahuatl comes from Nahuatl itself, commonly associated with nāhuatl, a word conveying the idea of clear, intelligible, or pleasant-sounding speech. It is related to a stem concerning audible or understandable expression. English adopted the language name through Spanish scholarly and colonial usage. Nahuatl also supplied numerous words to Spanish, some of which later entered English, including words ancestral to chocolate and tomato. The modern label covers several closely related linguistic varieties.
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