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Pipil people The name "Pipil" is the most commonly encountered term in the anthropological and linguistic literature. This exonym is from the closely related Nahuatl word "-pil" "son, boy". Archaeologist William Fowler notes that "pipil" can be translated as "noble" and surmises that the invading Spanish and their Auxiliary Indians used the name as a reference to the population's princely caste, which owned all land and directed and composed the standing army. In this reading, the name "Pipil" only later became associated with the people as a whole. Common Salvadoran popular belief, however, is that the term "pipil" translates properly as "childish" and was inspired by the simple form of Nahuatl spoken by the people living at such distance from the core civilization in Mexico.
Pipil people Finally, for other authors the term "Aztec" is used to refer to all closely languages in this region as a single language, not distinguishing Nawat from Nahuatl (and sometimes not even separating out Pochutec). The classification of Nahuan that Campbell argues for (1985, 1997) has been superseded by newer and more detailed classifications. And currently the widely accepted classifications by Lastra de Suarez (1986) and Canger (1988), see Pipil as a Nahuan dialect of the eastern periphery.
Pipil people A cohesive group sharing a central Mexican culture migrated to the southern Guatemalan piedmont during the Late Classic. They settled around the town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, erecting Monument 4 at around the division between the Late and Terminal Classic. The culture lasted until the Spanish conquest, at which time they still maintained their Nawat language, despite being surrounded by Maya.
Pipil people The Pipil organized a nation known as "Cuzcatlan", with at least two centralized city/states that may have been subdivided into smaller principalities. . The Pipil were also competent workers in cotton textiles, and developed a wide ranging trade network for woven goods as well as agricultural products. Their cultivation of cacao, centred in the Izalcos area and involving a vast and sophisticated irrigation system, was especially lucrative and Pipil trade in cacao reached as far north as Teotihuacan.
Pipil people After the Spanish victory, the Pipils became vassals of the Spanish Crown and were no longer called Pipiles by the Spanish but simply "indios" or Indians. The term "Pipil" has therefore remained associated, in local Salvadoran rhetoric, with the pre-conquest indigenous culture. Today it is used by scholars to distinguish the Nahua population in El Salvador from other Nahuat-speaking groups (such as in Nicaragua). However, neither the self-identified indigenous population nor its political movement, which has resurged over recent decades, uses the term "pipil" to describe themselves, but instead uses the term "Nahuat" or simply "indigena".