With more than half a million speakers, Mixtec is spoken in La Mixteca - a region spanning the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Guerrero. Over the years, migration has brought the language to other parts of Mexico, and even the United States - with a significant community in California.

Today, around 1.7 million Nahua speak varieties of Nahuatl, mostly in central Mexico, in states such as Puebla.