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As of 2020, Nahuatl is spoken across Mexico by an estimated 1.6 million people, including 111,797 monolingual speakers. [21] This is an increase from 1.4 million people speakers total but a decrease from 190,000 monolingual speakers in 2000. [ 22 ]
For most other states the percentage of monolinguals among the speakers is less than 5%. This means that in most states more than 95% of the Nahuatl speaking population are bilingual in Spanish. [85] According to one study, how often Nahuatl is used is linked to community well-being, partly because it is tied to positive emotions. [86]
The population of children aged 0 to 2 years in homes where the head of household or a spouse spoke an indigenous language was 678 954. The indigenous language-speaking population has been increasing in absolute numbers for decades but has nonetheless fallen in proportion to the national population. [77]
In the 21st century, the government of Mexico broadly classifies all Nahuatl-speaking peoples as Nahuas, making the number of Mexica people living in Mexico difficult to estimate. [4] Since 1810, the name "Aztec” has been more common when referring to the Mexica and the two names have become largely interchangeable. [5]
The only indigenous language spoken by more than a million people in Mexico is the Nahuatl language; the other Native American languages with a large population of native speakers (at least 400,000 speakers) include Yucatec Maya, Tzeltal Maya, Tzotzil Maya, Mixtec, and Zapotec.
Indigenous languages of Mexico in 2005 Language Speakers Nahuatl (Nahualt, Nahuat, Nahual, Melatahtol) 1,376,026 Yucatec Maya (Maaya tʼaan) 759,000 Mixtec (Tuʼun sávi) 423,216 Zapotec (Diidxaza/Dizhsa) 410,901 Tzeltal Maya (Kʼop o winik atel) 371,730 Tzotzil Maya (Batsil kʼop) 329,937 Otomí (Hñä hñü) 239,850 Totonac (Tachihuiin) 230,930
Map showing the areas of Mexico where Nahuatl dialects are spoken today (red) and where it is known to have been spoken historically (green) [1] The Nahuan or Aztecan languages are those languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family that have undergone a sound change , known as Whorf's law , that changed an original *t to / tɬ / before *a. [ 2 ]
Using an estimate of approximately 37 million people in Mexico, Central and South America in 1492 (including 6 million in the Aztec Empire, 5–10 million in the Mayan States, 11 million in what is now Brazil, and 12 million in the Inca Empire), the lowest estimates give a population decrease from all causes of 80% by the end of the 17th ...