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Languages of Mexico

The Linguasphere Register records 15 entries for Mexico, spread across 4 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

15Register entries
4Sectors present
10Zones
2Language entries

4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 6= NORTH-AMERICA 7= SINO-INDIAN

Register entries recorded in Mexico

CodeEntryLevelNote
40=EUSKARICZoneCovers "Basque" or "Euskarian" isolated set.
51-AAA-bbespañol-FInnerespañol académico, lingua castellana, "formal castillian spanish", "literary castillian", "standard castillian".
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52-ACFRYSK + DEUTSCHChainCONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. …
52-ACBDEUTSCH + NEDERLANDSNetGERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below …
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
61=NADENICZoneCovers the "Nadene" grouping (part of a "wider Na-Dene" hypothesis, with [66] Haida).
62=ALGICZoneCovers the "Algic" or "Algonkian + Ritwan" grouping.
65=AZTECICZoneCovers the "Uto-Aztecan", Ute + Nahuatl set of languages.
67=PUEBLO-DESERTZone
68=EAST-COASTZone
69-ABB-aMatlatzincaOuterFrancisco de los Ranchos
69=MESO-AMERICAZoneCovers the "Meso-America" reference area.
79=SINITICZoneCovers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity.

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.