What was the original language of Mexicans?

Well Mexican means a person of Mexican nationality. Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Since then most people have spoken Spanish although Mexico does not recognize an official language. There are between 62 and 68 native languages spoken including as many as 364 dialects of these languages.

Before the arrival of the Spaniards there was a city state called Mexico also known as Tenochtitlan. México means "in the center of the moon." The inhabitants of this city state called themselves Mexica. Modern English texts call them Aztecs.

The Mexica, or Aztecs, spoke a language called Náhuatl. Náhuatl is still the most widely spoken native language in modern Mexico. Five hundred years ago it was the lingua franca throughout Meso America-from northern Mexico to deep into Central America.

It was not the only language spoken. The were several Mayan dialects, Zapotec, Mixtec, Matlazinca, Purépecha, Otomí, Mazahua, Totonac, Apache, Comanche, Pima, Cora, Yaqui and many many more. In the first link below you can see the prehispanic languages that still exist.

Mexican is not a race as is explain by this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRio3Y1lCmQ

these guys are also Mexican http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrHde4hT0qE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1qCrMxMLLg

And people that "didn´t look" Mexican in the United States http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/40-stars-... http://pocho.com/funny-you-dont-look-mexican/

9% of Mexican are 100% European BUT they have evolved a bit, just as U.S. Americans are evolving into their habitat. If you add up the Mexicans that can pass as white then the number would go up to 17% because they are mostly european just like most guys in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpOqGA3nS4 but in general, Mexicans in Mexico are 58.98% European 35.5% Asian (Amerindian) and 5.03 African but it also depends on the state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico#Population_gen...

The original Languages of the indigenous people are these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico#Languages but Spanish is also part of the Mexican language because of Mexicans Spanish legacy.

NOTE: I don´t really understand your question because every country is mixed, for example, Spain is not the original language of Spain (back then it was called Iberia), there were many people living there before the modern day Spanish, people like the Iberians, Celt-iberians, Greeks, Carthagians, Romans, Visigoths, and the Moors, in fact, the Spanish language has evolved from the languages of all the people that lived in Spain just as in Latin America, the Spanish in there has also adopted words from the Amerindians. http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/resources/spanish/...

So since the Spanish language has borrowed Arab and Latin words does that mean that they shouldn´t pride in their language? See were I´m going, no offense though.

Note2: Mexico is not like the movies like "El Zorro" or "Once upon a time in Mexico" for many many reasons, countries around the world are not portrayed properly in American movies, the reason there is a lot of illegal immigration is because Latin America is the world´s most unequal region but that inequality is slowly starting to change http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/13/latin... (and please don´t relate the things that I said with racism because there are some rich brown people in Mexico).

The area that is called Mexico was made up of many different peoples, which had separate languages.

See URL below.

Originally Aztec and Mayan, later Spanish.

This is a very complicated question. Then, we would have to say English is not the original language of the USA!

nahuatl was the language most in use in the valley of mexico before the spanish arrival. other languages were spoken including maya, mixtec, zapotec, totonac...

the spanish spoken in mexico was inherited from the spanish but way more than 10% of the population are descendant from the spanish that colonized mexico. even mexican ppl who outwardly look more indigenous mexican than european are descendant from spanish ppl...esp if they have a spanish surname. they may be mostly indigenous and mestizo but someone in their family came from spain. indigenous mexicans didnt select a surname at random. illegitimacy in medieval spain didnt carry the stigma it mightve in other countries so unions with indigenous mexicans that produced offspring resulted in the offspring carrying the spanish surname of the father. indigenous surnames can be found in mexico but they are not that common and the ppl that carry them (that ive seen) dont look indigenous. which is to be expected as the conquest and colonization of mexico was brutal. millions of indigenous died due to disease, war and famine after the conquest...the indigenous pop took a huge nosedive but was replaced by modern day mexicans who are a mixture of the spanish (and europeans who migrated to mexico in more modern times) and indigenous ppl.

if you asked a mexican in mexico if they were spanish, they would tell you they are mexican. if you asked a mexican american if they were spanish, they might tell you they are hispanic or latino. some mexican americans are descendent from the spanish that settled the american southwest during the spanish colonial period in mexico who never left and dont identify with mexico...esp if they have intermarried with ppl with the same background. mexicans from northern mexico, for the most part, have more spanish blood as mexicans from the south as they are also descendent from the same early spanish colonists who settled the american southwest for the spanish crown. northern mexico was empty except for nomadic bands of indians that werent pacified up til nearly the 20th century when the early spanish came to the area...hence the higher percentage of spanish blood. but most mexicans have both european and indigenous blood to varying degrees...

mexicans are proud of their "brand" of spanish...which is a little harder sounding than the spanish spoken in spain today. if you speak spanish poorly, you will be corrected a lot....not because they are trying to belittle you but because they are proud.

im not entirely shure, because in ancient time's each tribe had their own langauge, nahuatl and mayan are only a few, but they are the most common indigenous language's, though there are more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Mexico

maybe after the spanish came and inslaved mexico they forvefully had to learn some spanish, and that's how it developed.

Mexicans are a mix of the Spanish people and the native indian peoples. So the Spanish language has always been apart of the Mexican people as were the native language that are not used anymore.

Nahuatl and its spoken by 1.5 million people in Mexico. I don't pride myself with knowing a language. It just a language but i do want to learn Nahuatl.

Mexican was our language along with nauglti . Depending on which tribe im mexico their roots are from

Mayan and Incan