Huasteca Nahuatl

Huasteca Nahuatl
Mexkatl (Eastern)
Native toMexico
RegionLa Huasteca (San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz)
Native speakers
(Eastern: 410,000 cited 1991)
Central: 200,000 (2000)
Western: 400,000 (1991)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
nhe  Eastern (Veracruz)
nch  Central
nhw  Western (Tamazunchale)
Glottologhuas1257
ELPWestern Huasteca Nahuatl

Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuan language spoken by over a million people in the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, centered in the states of Hidalgo (Eastern) and San Luis Potosí (Western).

Ethnologue divides Huasteca Nahuatl into three languages: Eastern, Central, and Western, as they judge that separate literature is required, but notes that there is 85% mutual intelligibility between Eastern and Western.

XEANT-AM radio broadcasts in Huasteca Nahuatl.