In brief
Main language: Spanish. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.
Official figures from other countries
Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.
Mexico · 2020
126,014,024
Category as printed: «población total (habitantes)»resident population
[1] INEGI
Mexico · 2020
7,364,645
Category as printed: «hablante de alguna lengua indígena (3 años y más)»mother tongue
[1] INEGI
Mexico · 2020
2,576,213
Category as printed: «Afromexicana o afrodescendiente (autoadscripción)»ethnicity / nationality
[1] INEGI
United States · 2023
37,991,500
Category as printed: «Hispanic or Latino: Mexican»ethnicity / nationality
[2] U.S. Census Bureau
Languages and their lineage
Spanish
- Indo-Europeanindo1319
- Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
- Italicital1284
- Latino-Faliscanlati1262
- Latiniclati1263
- Imperial Latinimpe1234
- Romanceroma1334
- Italo-Western Romanceital1285
- Western Romancewest2813
- Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
- Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
- West Ibero-Romancewest2838
- Castiliccast1243
- Spanishstan1288
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Sources
- INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020: Resultados (comunicado de prensa). https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/saladeprensa/boletines/2021/EstSociodemo/ResultCenso20…
- U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B03001 (variable B03001_004E; Mexican label inferred by position, B03001_006E=Cuban confirmed). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B03001&g=010XX00US
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)