Indigenous Languages of Mexico

Mexico has as many as 68 indigenous Amerindian languages as national languages. According to the Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples and National Institute of Indigenous Languages, only 5.4% of the 10% of the population who is of Native American origin speak an indigenous language. Nahualt is an Indigenous language with a total of 1,376,026 speakers. The Yucatec Maya is the second most commonly spoken indigenous language with a number of 759,000 speakers. A few of the other indigenous languages that still exist in Mexico today are Tzeltal Maya, Tzotzil Maya, Otomi, Totonac, Mazate, and many others. With the Spanish forces and colonizers arriving in the 16^th century, the indigenous languages of Mexico slow was replaced with Spanish.