Mexican Spanish

Mexican Spanish (Castellano in Spanish) is the dialect of the Spanish language, as spoken in Mexico. Spanish was brought to present day Mexico around 500 years ago. As a result of Mexico City's central role in the colonial administration of New Spain, the population of the city included relatively large numbers of speakers from Spain. Mexico City (Tenochtitlán) had also been the capital of the Aztec Empire, and many speakers of the Aztec language... more
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