{"id":3698,"date":"2010-06-10T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:06:16","slug":"nahuatl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/nahuatl\/","title":{"rendered":"Nahuatl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>N<\/strong><strong>ahuatl<\/strong> is the language that was spoken by the Aztec and Toltec peoples of Mexico. Nahuatl enthusiasts are keen to have it elevated to become the official language of Mexico. It is constantly stated that this language provides a definitive explanation for the word Atlantis. At the beginning of the 19th century, Alexander Humboldt was probably the first to suggest that similarities existed between Nahuatl and Greek!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/matlock-gene\/\">Gene Matlock<\/a>, who favours a Mexican location for Atlantis, suggests that it means <em>People of the Water<\/em><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup><em>. <\/em>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/allen-j-m\/\">Jim Allen<\/a>, who supports the idea of a Bolivian Atlantis, claims that <em>Atl<\/em>&#8211;<em>antis<\/em> are native South American words meaning <em>Water<\/em> and <em>Copper<\/em><sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>. An English-Nahuatl dictionary is available online<sup>(c<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viewzone.com\/atlantis2.html\">https:\/\/www.viewzone.com\/atlantis2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200811094111\/http:\/\/www.atlantisbolivia.org\/atlantisboliviapart1.htm\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200811094111\/http:\/\/www.atlantisbolivia.org\/atlantisboliviapart1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freelang.net\/online\/nahuatl.php?lg=gb\">http:\/\/www.freelang.net\/online\/nahuatl.php?lg=gb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nahuatl is the language that was spoken by the Aztec and Toltec peoples of Mexico. Nahuatl enthusiasts are keen to have it elevated to become the official language of Mexico. It is constantly stated that this language provides a definitive explanation for the word Atlantis. At the beginning of the 19th century, Alexander Humboldt was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[452,178,42,1316],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gene-matlock","tag-jim-allen","tag-mexico","tag-nahuatl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67564,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/67564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}