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Mexican Spanish
Mexican Spanish ( es, español mexicano) is the variety of dialects and sociolects of the Spanish language spoken in Mexican territory. Mexico has the largest number of Spanish speakers, with more than twice as many as in any other country in ...
colloquial term for someone from downtown in the state of , Mexico's second-largest city. It is also used as an adjective for anything associated with or the highlands of .
[Prieto, Jorge Mejía (1985]
''Asi Habla El Mexicano''
México, D.F. : Panorama. . p.131
Etymology
The word derives from the
Nahuatl
Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...
word , the name of a monetary unit in
pre-Columbian
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...
times which became most closely associated with the region which today is Guadalajara.
See also
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Tapatío hot sauce: a brand of hot sauce produced in California.
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C.D. Tapatío: the official reserve team of Mexican soccer team
C.D. Guadalajara
Club Deportivo Guadalajara (); often simply known as Guadalajara () and their nickname ''Chivas'' (), is a Mexican professional football club based in Zapopan, Jalisco. Guadalajara is one of the ten founding members of the Mexican First Divisi ...
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References
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Guadalajara, Jalisco
Demonyms
Mexican slang