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Mexican Spanish
Español mexicano
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲolmexiˈkano]
Native to
Mexico
Ethnicity
Mexicans
Native speakers
L1: 120 million (2021)[citation needed] L2: 8.2 million (2021)[citation needed]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Western
Ibero-Romance
West Iberian
Castilian
Spanish
Mexican Spanish
Writing system
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
Mexico (de facto)
Regulated by
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1
es
ISO 639-2
spa[1]
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Glottolog
None
IETF
es-MX
Varieties of Mexican Spanish.[citation needed]
Northeastern
Northwestern
Northern peninsular
Western
Abajeño
Central
Southern
Coastal
Chiapaneco[2]
Yucateco
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Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español mexicano) is the variety of dialects and sociolects of the Spanish language spoken in the United Mexican States. Mexico has the largest number of Spanish speakers, more than double any other country in the world. Spanish is spoken by over 99% of the population, being the mother tongue of 93.8%, and the second language of 5.4%.[3]
^"ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^Similar to Central American Spanish in border zones and on low-class speakers.
^"CIA World Fact Book - Mexico". Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook. 4 March 2022. Archived from the original on 21 March 2022.
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