The Nahuas are a group of indigenous people of Mexico and El Salvador.

Their language of Uto-Aztecan affiliation is called Nahuatl and consists of many more dialects and variants, a number of which are mutually unintelligible.

About 1,500,000 Nahua speak Nahuatl.

Less than one thousand native speakers remain in El Salvador.

Evidence suggests the Nahua peoples originated in Aridoamerica, in regions of the present day northwestern Mexico.

They split off from the other Uto-Aztecan speaking peoples and migrated into central Mexico around 500 CE.

They settled in and around the Basin of Mexico and spread out to become the dominant people in central Mexico.