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Puebla, with 601,680 indigenous language speakers, accounting for 11.7% of the state's population. 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.
The Otomi (/ ˌoʊtəˈmiː /; Spanish: Otomí [otoˈmi]) are an Indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region. The Otomi are an Indigenous people of the Americas who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguistically related to the rest of the Otomanguean -speaking peoples ...
The Maya (/ ˈmaɪə /) are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. The ancient Maya civilization was formed by members of this group, and today's Maya are generally descended from people who lived within that historical region. Today they inhabit southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and westernmost El Salvador and Honduras.
Huichol. The Huichol (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈwit͡ʃo̞l]) or Wixárika (Huichol pronunciation: [wiˈraɾika]) [1] are an indigenous people of Mexico and the United States living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, as well as in the United States in the states of California, Arizona ...
Since Mexico's 2000 indigenous language law, indigenous languages like Purépecha were granted official status equal with Spanish in the areas in which they are spoken. Recently, educational instruction in Purépecha has been introduced in the local school systems. Additionally, many Purépecha communities offer classes and lessons in the language.
Matlatzinca (1 C, 5 P) Maya peoples (13 C, 32 P) Maya peoples of Mexico (3 C, 8 P) Mayo people (5 P) Mazahua (1 C, 2 P) Mazatec (2 C, 2 P) Mesoamerican cultures (30 C, 78 P) Mexican Indigenous rights activists (6 P) Mexican people of indigenous peoples descent (5 C, 20 P)
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, a Uto-Aztecan language. [2] Their primary homelands are in Río Yaqui valley [4] in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. [1] Today, there are eight Yaqui Pueblos in Sonora. [4][1]
Mixtec-Aztec, 1400–1521 AD. The Mixtecs (/ ˈmiːstɛks, ˈmiːʃtɛks /), [3] or Mixtecos, are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec culture was the main Mixtec civilization, which ...