DBWI: Nahuatl not as widely used as Spanish in Mexico?

I read a long-running scenario where Nahuatl and other Native Mesoamerican languages were marginalized after Mexico gained independence and remained intact...
 
I read a long-running scenario where Nahuatl and other Native Mesoamerican languages were marginalized after Mexico gained independence and remained intact...
Aren't most non-Nahuatl native languages (except Yucatec) already marginalized anyways? Nahuatl is just too strong for Mixtec or Zapotec or what have you to thrive.
 
Aren't most non-Nahuatl native languages (except Yucatec) already marginalized anyways? Nahuatl is just too strong for Mixtec or Zapotec or what have you to thrive.
Well it is the situation in OTL; in the timeline that I've read, Nahuatl suffered such fate as well as the Spanish-speaking elite were dominant in ATL Mexican independence movement.
 
So a TL in which Nahuatl suffers the same fate as Guarani?

As we all know, in the Province of Ascuncion [OOC: TTL Paraguay is a province of a united Federation of Rio de la Plata] Guarani was the primary language in colonial times, but largely fell by the wayside as the Criollo class became dominant in the region's struggle against Spain. The formation of the Federation of Rio de la Plata was the last nail in Guarani's coffin as Spanish was the only common language of the whole federation.

So maube a scenario in which New Spain gained independence intact rather than splintering into Mexico, Yucatan, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Mexico, and California? That way Nahuatl, while still being the majority language of the most populous region would be considered only a regional language. Spanish would be the only common language of all of New Spain, and thus would quickly become the language of government, commerce, and education.
 
And I suppose no high school in the Southwest would ever offer Nahuatl courses ITTL. That's pretty surreal to think about.

Maybe there wouldn't even BE a Southewest. If New Spain doesn't fracture, Nuevo Mexico and California may never be absorbed by the Federated Provinces of North America. With a POD of 1763 the FPNA may never even form. What we know now as the FPNA's Southwest may be the Northwest of a Spanish-speaking Federation occupying all of the former New Spain.
 
Maybe there wouldn't even BE a Southewest. If New Spain doesn't fracture, Nuevo Mexico and California may never be absorbed by the Federated Provinces of North America. With a POD of 1763 the FPNA may never even form. What we know now as the FPNA's Southwest may be the Northwest of a Spanish-speaking Federation occupying all of the former New Spain.

On a second thought, what would they even CALL a New Spain that gained independence as a united federation. They couldn't call it New Spain any more once it was no longer a colony, but calling it Mexico would just invite the centralizing policies which led to the successful rebellions of Jaliso, Yucatan, Nuevo Leon, etc.
 
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