[Aztlan] Autonomous Indigenous People Who Speak Nahuatl

[David Brye]

Around 1998, the Secretaría de Educación Pública and CONACULTA of the 
Mexican government published a map of La Diversidad Cultural de México: 
Los Pueblos Indígenas y sus 62 Idiomas based on 1997 estimates of the 
indigenous population of the country. Normally, 62 is given as the 
number of indigenous groups officially recognized by the government. 
I'm not clear on what is meant by autonomous in this context.

The top ten indigenous groups were:
	Náhuatl        2,563,000
	Maya            1,490,000
	Zapoteco        785,000
	Mixteco           764,000
	Otomí               566,000
	Tzetzal            547,000
	Tzotzil              514,000
	Totonaca        410,000
	Mazateco       339,000
	Chol                274,000

The 16 smallest groups of the 62 number less than 1,000 each.

On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Webmaster wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While I was on vacation I learned the Mexico has over 100 (gov 
> recognized)
> indigenous peoples with appx. 30 of them autonomous.
>
> Of these autonomous peoples, does anyone know how many speak 
> predominantly
> Nahua?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Un saludo,
>
> Daniel Maldonado
> Webmaster
> http://chicanoforums.com