languages in mexico?

Question

what languages other than spanish do they speak in mexico now-a-days?

Answer 1

Languages spoken in Mexico, data from 2000. First, the name of the language, then its endonim and then the number of speakers.
Spanish, Nahuatl [nawatlahtolli] (1,659,029), Mayan [maya t'an] (892,723), Mixtec [tu'un sávi] (510,801), Zapotec [binizaa] (505,992), Tzotzil maya [K'op o winik atel] (336,448), Otomí [hñä hñü](327,319), Totonac [tachihuiin] (271,847), Mazatec [ha shuta enima] (246,198), Chol [winik] (189,599), Husatec [téenek] (173,233), chinantec [tsa jujmí] (152,711), Mazahua [jñatio] (151,897), Purépecha or Tarasco [p'urhépechas] (136,388), Mixe [ayüük] (135,316), Tlapanec [me'phaa] (119,497), Tarahumara [rarámuri] (87,721), Mayo [yoreme] (60,093), Amuzgo [tzañcue] (48,843), Chatino [cha'cña] (47,762), Tojolabal [tojolwinik otik] (44,531), Popoluca [tuncápxe] (44,237), Chontal from Tabasco [yokot t'an] (43,850), Huichol [wixárika] (36,856), Mayo [yoreme] (34,770), Mepehuán [o'odham] (30,339), Trique [tinujéi] (24,491), Cora [naáyarite] (19,512), Popoloca (18,926), Huave [ikoods] (16,135), Cuicatec [nduudu yu] (15,078), Yaqui [yoreme] (15,053), Q'anjob'al [kanjobal] (10,853), Tepehua [huamasipini] (10,625), Pame [xigüe] (9,768), Mam [qyool] (8,739), Chontal from Oaxaca [slijuala sihanuk] (5,534), Chuj (2,143), Tacuate (2,067), Chichimeca Jonaz [uza] (1,987), Guarijío [makurawe] (1,905), Chocho [runixa ngiigua] (1,078), Pima [o'odham] (836), K'ekchí [k'ekchí] (835), Lacandon [hach t'an] (731), Jacaltec [abxubal] (584), Ocuiltec [tlahuica] (522), Seri [concaac] (518), Ixcatec (406), K'iche' (286), Kakchiquel (230), Paipai [akwa'ala] (221), Cucapá [es péi] (206), Mototzintlec [qatok] (186), Kumiai [ti'pai] (185), Papago [tohono o'odam] (153), Kikapú [kikapooa] (144), Ixil (108), Cochimí [laymón, mti'pá] (96), Kiliwa [ko'lew] (55), Aguacatec (27), and Opata, Soltec, Papabucán and others (337).
These are NOT dialects. They are languages by their own. Gosh! Saying that they are dialects is like saying that Navajo is a dialect of English!
For those who mentioned Portuguese... *sigh* would it help if we show them a map? No... right... besides the map you need a little more of knowledge.
For the guy who mentioned Spanglish... shame on him!

Answer 2

I can't believe what some people say here, Portuguese? ha ha ha.
In Mexico they speak mainly Spanish, and they also have more than 50 indigenous languages, like Nahuatl and Maya. Of course like in any other country in the world you will find English speaking people as well.

Answer 3

Is like any country in the world.

Besides Spanish, Nahuatl, a native language is the second most common language, although really few people speak it, and I would say many of them learned it in some course.
At least 13% of Mexico speak a native language if that's your question.

But like any place in the world, immigrants speak their native language and some people learn other languages by themselves

Answer 4

They do not speak Spanish in Mexico anymore. They speak Spanglish. It is a modernized Spanish-English language that was brought upon the Country of Mexico due to the fact that the Spanish language is a bit slow.

Answer 5

Languages and cultures of present-day Mexico
Index by language
The SIL-Mexico website is organized primarily according to 'language families'. Each family has its own 'family page', which contains information about the languages in that family and a list of the publications in or about them which are available on this site.

To make it easier to find a particular language, the index below lists the names of modern Mexican languages, each one with a link to the family page. Several families group together into 'language stocks', so there are also links to information about the stocks. When the names of language families and stocks are distinctly different from the language names, they are included in the list of names.

See the link below to figure it out.

http://www.sil.org/mexico/23i-

Answer 6

I would have answered , but brahe is all over it! The person who said Spanglish is an idiot as are the people who called native langauges dialects; the same people who say " We had a superior culture until the Spanish conquered us and destroyed it" yet deny their own Indian heritage. Mexicans can be so annoying.

Answer 7

Only Spanish and some indian comunities speak their dialects (yes, dialects, not from spanish, but they are still dialects as some may vary very little from others )like nahuatl,etc.

No English, Chinese or Portuguese!!! That was hilarious.

Answer 8

Only Spanish. The rest are dialects.
Man!!! who said portuguese?

Answer 9

spanish, some people speak english, well the americans that live there, some portugese, some japanese and chinese, some arabs too... and indigenous languages, maybe too many to count...

Answer 10

All I heard was just Spanish. Maybe Portuguese...