Mexican Spanish
Language south of border
Mexican Spanish is the variety of Spanish spoken in Mexico, the most populous Spanish-speaking country.
It differs from Peninsular Spanish and other Latin American varieties in vocabulary, pronunciation, and some grammar.
Mexican Spanish has absorbed indigenous words, especially from Nahuatl: chocolate, tomato, avocado.
It serves as a major reference dialect for Spanish-language media in North America.
Mexican-American with activist heritage
- LatinoLatin American by heritage
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
- SpanglishHybrid of two languages
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
heritage language · Nahuatl · indigenous · mestizo · assimilation · acculturation · diaspora · identity
Chicano
Mexican-American with activist heritage
- LatinoLatin American by heritage
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
- SpanglishHybrid of two languages
code-switching · heritage language · Nahuatl · indigenous · mestizo · assimilation · acculturation · diaspora · identity · borderlands
taco
Filled, folded flatbread
mole · mezcal · churro · luchador · charro · nopal · serape · telenovela · piñata · quinceañera
norteño
Spanish northern adjective
- poblanoMild Mexican chili pepper
padre
Military or Catholic cleric
- Hispanic WorldSpain, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile
- Spanish learningvocabulary, grammar, verbs, nouns, adjectives
- Spanish/PortuguesePortuguese, Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Basque
- Spanish dialectsCastilian, Andalusian, Ladino
- Standard Languagesstandard language, Mandarin Chinese, High German, BBC English, Oxford English
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
Mexican SpanishPortuguese
Of a western Iberian nation
Brazilian Portuguese · Catalan · Italian · French · Nahuatl
Mexico, Spanish, Hispanic, Mexican, New Mexico, Mexicans, Mexico City, Spaniard, Hispanicized