Mexico

Mexico is the second-largest country by population in North America, and the largest in the Spanish-speaking world, with approx. 130 million people. It’s a large and diverse country, encompassing the territories of great Meso­amer­i­can civilisations like the Aztecs and the Mayans (the latter in part). In January 2020 I visited Mexico City and the Yucatán Peninsula, and loved them both.

Wiki

• 2020-06-22: 💬 Mesoamerican language area: Mesoamerica is a linguistically diverse place, with languages from the Uto-Aztecan family (like Nahuatl), the Mayan …
• 2021-08-23: 🍱 amaranth: First got onto this topic via “amaranth wafers”, which are popular in Mexico and, increasingly, the US. You …
• 2021-08-25: 🍱 corn: Corn, or maize, is a plant that I always knew growing up as a vegetable (in the form of sweet corn), but is actually a …
• 2022-01-11: 🪴 tomatillo: Tomatillos are a vegetable originally domesticated in Mesoamerica, best-known in the Anglosphere as the primary …
• 2022-01-21: 💬 Nahuatl: Na­hua­tl is an indigenous language of Mexico, with about 1.7 million mod­ern-day speakers. It is an agglutinative, …

Jessica Smith is a left-wing feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.