What was the majority language in New Spain?
"This Mexican language [Nahuatl] is the common tongue spoken throughout the provinces of New Spain—even though there are many distinct languages specific to each province, and even to parts of individual towns, for they are countless. Yet everywhere there are interpreters who understand and speak Mexican, for it is the language that circulates throughout the land, just as Latin does across the kingdoms of Europe."
– Jerónimo de Mendieta, Spanish Franciscan friar and historian (1525–1604)
Source(s):
.- Mendieta, Gerónimo (1997). Historia eclesiástica indiana, Vol. 2, p. 239, Book 4.
.- Wright Carr, David Charles (2007). "La Política Lingüística en la Nueva España" by Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Guanajuato.
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