Tabasco

Mexico, state, population 2,402,598, first language Spanish.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · MX-TAB · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Language stack

The roles this state's languages play, with a share where a census gives one.

How this is measured

A label comes from the States sheet and has no share. A share comes from a census and names its basis. Both can exist for one language.

Spanish

De facto · Sheet label

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Spanish

Administrative · Sheet label

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Spanish

National · Sheet label

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Role	Language
De facto	Spanish
Administrative	Spanish
National	Spanish

Labels from the States sheet; no census share yet.

Official-language count: 1. Diversity below is country-level.

Languages people can speak

Share of residents able to speak each language, 2020.

How this is measured

Collective census categories (such as 'other languages') are left out, so shares can sum to less than 100%. Where a census lets people name several main languages, as Switzerland's does, they can sum to more.

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2.6%

0.2%

0.1%

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1	Tabasco Chontal	2.6%
2	Tzeltal	0.2%
3	Tzotzil	0.1%
4	Tabasco Zoque	0.0%
5	Chichimeca-Jonaz	0.0%
6	Chochotec	0.0%
7	Chuj	0.0%
8	Huastec	0.0%
9	Huichol	0.0%
10	Ixil	0.0%
11	K'iche'	0.0%
12	Kaqchikel	0.0%
13	Mam	0.0%
14	San Francisco Matlatzinca	0.0%
15	Yucatec Maya	0.0%
16	Mayo	0.0%
17	Highland Popoluca	0.0%
18	Q'anjob'al	0.0%
19	Q'eqchi'	0.0%
20	Purepecha	0.0%
21	Tojolabal	0.0%
22	Yaqui	0.0%
23	Zapotec	0.0%

Languages of Mexico

Country-level shares: CLDR, with a census or survey where CLDR has none. They overlap and are never normalised.

How this is measured

Effective number of languages 1.42, Greenberg diversity 0.29, both on the raw shares and country-level.

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Spanish

De facto official

83%

13%

0.7%

0.5%

0.5%

0.4%

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

0.4%

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

0.4%

Central Mazahua

0.3%

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

0.2%

Huastec

0.1%

Purepecha

0.1%

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1	Spanish	83.0%	De facto official
2	English	13.0%	—
3	Yucatec Maya	0.7%	—
4	Tzeltal	0.5%	—
5	Tzotzil	0.5%	—
6	Zapotec	0.4%	—
7	Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl	0.4%	—
8	Western Huasteca Nahuatl	0.4%	—
9	Central Mazahua	0.3%	—
10	Central Huasteca Nahuatl	0.2%	—
11	Huastec	0.1%	—
12	Purepecha	0.1%	—

Largest 12 of 51 languages CLDR records for Mexico.

How far lingua francas reach

Share able to hold a conversation, first or second language.

How this is measured

Each row carries its source tier. A Tier 1 census figure is this state's own; a Tier 3 figure is the country's, not this state's.

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Spanish

Tier 3 country

83%

English

Tier 3 country

13%

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1	Spanish	83.0%	Tier 3 country
2	English	13.0%	Tier 3 country

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Where these numbers come from

Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).

Labels are the States sheet's. Shares marked country-level are CLDR's for the whole country, not a measurement of this state. See Method.