Only sort of. There’s some Aztec in there, but I believe there’s also significant admixture from the Spaniards, and from the other tribes in the region, many of whom sided with the Spanish against the Aztecs.
I didn’t know that. Is it a situation like the remnants of the various Native American tribes in the US? It sounds more serious, since I don’t think the Cree or Iroquois or whoever are speaking their dialects more than English.
Although I will say that “about a million” probably doesn’t bear out covok’s assertion that “the modern Mexican” (population ~130 million) is effectively an Aztec.
Its not that there are only a million, its way way higher, but its nearly a million that still primarily speak nahuatl as their first language. There are way more Spanish speaking Aztecs, full blooded looking, ala the Maori that speak English first.
Mexico had a way bigger native population that north america, they are much more prominent. Imagine if nearly half to 3/4 of the population of the USA was mixed or pure blooded Cherokee/other tribes.
Modern Mexicans are Aztecs.
Only sort of. There’s some Aztec in there, but I believe there’s also significant admixture from the Spaniards, and from the other tribes in the region, many of whom sided with the Spanish against the Aztecs.
Yes and no. About a million aztec nahuatl native speakers that primarily speak it before Spanish.
I didn’t know that. Is it a situation like the remnants of the various Native American tribes in the US? It sounds more serious, since I don’t think the Cree or Iroquois or whoever are speaking their dialects more than English.
Although I will say that “about a million” probably doesn’t bear out covok’s assertion that “the modern Mexican” (population ~130 million) is effectively an Aztec.
Its not that there are only a million, its way way higher, but its nearly a million that still primarily speak nahuatl as their first language. There are way more Spanish speaking Aztecs, full blooded looking, ala the Maori that speak English first. Mexico had a way bigger native population that north america, they are much more prominent. Imagine if nearly half to 3/4 of the population of the USA was mixed or pure blooded Cherokee/other tribes.