<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español mexicano) is a set of varieties of the Spanish language as spoken in Mexico and in some parts of the United States and Canada . </P> <P> Spanish was brought to Mexico in the 16th century . As in all other Spanish - speaking countries (including Spain), different accents and varieties of the language exist in different parts of the country, for both historical and sociological reasons . Among these, the varieties that are best known outside of the country are those of central Mexico--both educated and uneducated varieties--largely because the capital, Mexico City, hosts most of the mass communication media with international projection . For this reason, most of the film dubbing identified abroad with the label "Mexican Spanish" or "Latin American Spanish" actually corresponds to the central Mexican variety . </P> <P> Mexico City was built on the site of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire . Besides the Aztecs or Mexica, the region was home to many other Nahuatl - speaking cultures as well; consequently many speakers of Nahuatl continued to live there and in the surrounding region, outnumbering the Spanish - speakers, and the Spanish of central Mexico incorporated a significant number of Hispanicized Nahuatl words and cultural markers . At the same time, as a result of Mexico City's central role in the colonial administration of New Spain, the population of the city included a relatively large number of speakers from Spain, and the city and the neighboring State of Mexico tended historically to exercise a standardizing effect over the language of the entire central region of the country . </P>

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