In 2010, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes awarded the National Culture Prize (Premio Nacional de Cultura 2010) to linguist Dr. Jorge Ernesto Lemus of Don Bosco University for his work with Nawat.
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In El Salvador, Nawat is endangered: it is spoken mostly by a few elderly speakers in the Salvadoran departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán.
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Amongst the pre-Columbian languages that still exist common to places such as Izalco and Cacaopera is Nawat Pipil.
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Less than one percent of the population speaks the Pipil language, in places such as Izalco and several other towns.