Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. Nahuatl is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of Mexico. It belongs to the same language family as many Indigenous languages spoken in the Western United States, including Tongva, which is local to Los Angeles. Swipe to learn the Nahuatl and Spanish names of animals found in the 16th-century Americas. Illustrations are from the Florentine Codex, a Nahuatl-Spanish encyclopedia. English / Nahuatl / Spanish Jaguar / Ocelotl / Jaguar Monkey / Ozomahtli / Mono Hummingbird / Huitzitzilin / Colibri Ant / Azcatl / Hormiga Bee / Pipiyolin / Abeja Butterfly / Papalotl / Mariposa . . . . 🏷: #bibliotecamedicealaurenziana #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Mexico #florentinecodex #gri #gettyresearchinstitute #nahuatl #spanish