Tags: Language.
Mexicanero is the name used by the speakers of the isolated Nahuatl language spoken in southern Durango and Nayarit to refer to their language. It has around 1000 speakers in the remote towns of San Pedro Jícora and San Juan Buenaventura in the Mezquital municipality Durango where they coexist with speakers of Tepehuán and some 300 speakers in the Acaponeta municipality of Nayarit.