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[email protected] str tyt.indd 4 2011-02-20 02:52:41 COLLOQUIA HUMANISTICA John Sullivan Justyna Olko Zacatecas Institute for Teaching Faculty of “Artes Liberales” and Research in Ethnology University of Warsaw Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw Empire, Colony, and Globalization. A Brief History of the Nahuatl Language1 Introduction ne of the most important cultural groups of native America at the Otime of the frst contact with the Europeans, the speakers of Nahuatl occupied vast areas of central Mexico as well as more peripheral regions to the north, south and east; in each of these zones they coexisted with speakers of other languages.