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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.
Under Mexico's General Law of Linguistic Rights of the Indigenous Peoples, promulgated in 2003, [14] Nahuatl and the other 63 indigenous languages of Mexico are recognized as lenguas nacionales ('national languages') in the regions where they are spoken. They are given the same status as Spanish within their respective regions.
In the United States, the Navajo language is the most spoken Native American language, with more than 200,000 speakers in the Southwestern United States. The US Marine Corps recruited Navajo men, who were established as code talkers during World War II.
The subarea commonly called Central Mexico, covering valleys and mountainous areas surrounding the Valley of Mexico, originally was mainly host to Oto-Pamean languages; however, beginning in the late classic these languages were largely gradually displaced by Nahuatl, which was henceforth the predominant indigenous language of the area.
Yucatán, with 537,516 indigenous language speakers, accounting for 30.3% of the state's population. These five states accounted for 61.1% of all indigenous language speakers in Mexico. However, most indigenous Mexicans do not speak their languages and speak only Spanish, as reflected in their populations.
Mexican states by population and percentage of Indigenous language–speakers. Mexican states by percentage of Indigenous peoples, 2010. Mexican states by total Indigenous population, 2010.
Mexico: 287 5 292 4.11 125,535,200 435,886 4,730 ... List of languages by number of native speakers; List of languages by total number of speakers;
A number of Indigenous men had made a place for themselves in post-independence Mexico, the most prominent being Benito Juárez. But an important nineteenth-century figure of Nahua was Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893), born in Tixtla, Guerrero who became a well respected liberal intellectual, man of letters, politician, and diplomat.