Nahuatl


Do the actors playing Aztecs speak Nahuatl in the film? I just recently saw it and really enjoyed the way they placed Malinche in the film, and having her speak what sounded like one of the indigenous languages. Just wondering if it was actually Nahuatl or not. It added a nice touch to the movie.

I was kind of shocked the director didn't have the Aztecs speaking Spanish, given that this is Hollywood and I expected it to be less historically accurate than it turned out to be.

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I studied some of the Nahuatl language, and yes, that is indeed Nahuatl that the Aztecs speak in this very accurate, excellent film. BTW I also like how some Spanish sentences were interspersed among the English ones spoken by the Spaniards in the movie.

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