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the language of the Toltecs, according to the Florentine Codex; also, the name for one of the important ethnic groups in Tollan (Tula)
See an image that represents Nonohualca in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Auh in jnnexin catca, mononoalcaximaia, qujnonooalcatlaliaia in innexin, qujteteçoaia in jmjxquac. = And their hair style was cut after the manner of the Nonoalca; they fashioned their hair style like the Nonoalca; they shaved the hair over their foreheads. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Injque in tulteca: in iuh mjtoa, ca naoa catca, ca amo popolocaia: iece qujnonoalcaitoaia in jntlatol = These Tolteca, as is said, were Nahua; they did not speak a barbarous tongue. However, their language they called Nonoalca. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Nonohualca = a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
yuan y nonoualca chichimeca yn xelhuan yn ueuetzin yn quauhtzin yn citlalmacuetzin = junto con los nonoualca chichimeca: Xelhuan, Ueuetzin, Quauhtzin, Citlalmacuetzin (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)