How to pronounce “nahua” in English

To describe all these intersections, she uses the Nahuatl word nepantla — an Indigenous concept meaning “the in-between.” She compares nepantla to the stage of writing “where you have all these ideas,

She writes in what she calls “Chicano Spanish” — slipping between English, Nahuatl, and different variants of Spanish.

Yeah, absolutely. Because you can trace those words back to Nahuatl.