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Mexico is a multilingual nation, with Spanish as the main language and 63 other Amerindian languages recognized as national languages. The origin of Mexico's Spanish is found in the history of the Spaniards that conquered Mexico in the 16th century; on the other hand, most of those Amerindian languages, came from the ancient civilizations that brought them: the Teotihuacans and Aztecs in central Mexico, and the Olmecs and Mayans who settled along the Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula. Those civilizations spawned what are known as the Uto-Aztecan family of languages, including Nahuatl, Yaqui and Mayo as well as the Mayan languages, including the Tzotzil Mayan, Tzeltal Maya or Huastec. There are of course, many more languages such as the Totonacan, Oto-Manguean or Mixe-Zoquean families of languages that came from smaller societies .

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