Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mexico has 60 languages!

However, only 6% of the population can speak any of these indigenous languages. The Spanish colonizers forced the Spanish language to be the official language of Mexico. It wasn’t until the 1990s that Mexico accept the indigenous languages as official languages for the country. Mexican legal documents can now be written in any of the 60 languages!

Read more about Mexican languages here.

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