Laitin Americans

Laitin Americans (Spaingie: latinoamericano, Portuguese: latino-americano) are the citizens o the Laitin American kintras an dependencies. Laitin American kintras are multi-ethnic, hame tae fowk o different ethnic an naitional backgrunds. As a result, some Latin Americans daena tak thair naitionality as an ethnicity, but identifee thairsels wi baith thair naitionality an thair ancestral oreegins.^[32] Aside frae the indigenous Amerindian (aka Native American) population, aw Laitin Americans or thair ancestors immigratit athin the past five centuries.

Laitin Americans

Tot population
(562,000,000 or more (in 2010)[1])
Regions wi signeeficant populations
Laitin Americae: 561,183,291[2]
Brazil	199,321,413[3]
Mexico	114,975,406[4]
Colombie	45,239,079[5]
Argentinae	42,192,494[6]
Peru	29,549,517[7]
Venezuela	28,047,938[8]
Chile	17,067,369[9]
Ecuador	15,223,680[10]
Guatemala	14,099,032[11]
Cuba	11,075,244[12]
Bolivie	10,290,003[13]
Dominican Republic	10,088,598[14]
Haiti	9,801,664[15]
Honduras	8,296,693[16]
Paraguay	6,541,590[17]
El Salvador	6,090,646[18]
Nicaragua	5,727,707[19]
Costa Rica	4,636,340[20]
Puerto Rico	3,690,923[21]
Panama	3,510,045[22]
Uruguay	3,316,328[23]
Unitit States	+50,000,000[24][25]
Spain	+1,700,000[26]
Japan	+345.000[27]
Canadae	304,245[28]
Unitit Kinrick	186,500[29]
Portugal	~100,000[30]
Australie	93,795[31]
Leids
Primarily Spaingie an Portuguese. Regionally Quechua, Mayan leids, Guaraní, Aymara, French, Nahuatl an ithers
Releegion
Mostly Roman Catholic. Ither significant minorities.

The specific ethnic an/or racial composition varies frae kintra tae kintra: mony hae a predominance o European-Amerindian, or Mestizo, population; in ithers, Amerindians are a majority; some are maistly inhabitit bi fowk o European ancestry; an ithers are primarily Mulatto.^[33] Various Black, Asie, an Zambo (mixed Black an Amerindian) minorities are identifee'd in maist kintras an aw.^[33] White Laitin Americans are the lairgest single group.^[32] Thegither wi the fowk o pairt-European ancestry thay combine for approximately 80% o the population,^[34] or even mair.^[32]

Laitin Americans an thair stryndants can be foond amaist elsewhaur in the warld, pairticularly in densely populatit urban auries. The maist important migratory destiny for Laitin Americans are the Unitit States, Wastren Europe, Canadae an Australie.

Definition

Main airticle: Laitin Americae

Laitin American kintras (green) in the Americas

Laitin Americae (Spaingie: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is the region o the Americas whaur Romance leids (i.e., thae derivit frae Laitin—pairticularly Spaingie an Portuguese, an variably French—are primarily spoken.^[35][36]

It includes mair nor 20 naitions: Mexico in North Americae; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica an Panama in Central Americae; Colombie, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivie, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentinae an Uruguay in Sooth Americae; Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, an Puerto Rico in the Caribbean—in summar, Hispanic Americae, Brazil, an Haiti.

If we consider this definition strictly, we shoud consider Canadae an in pairticular Quebec as pairt o Laitin Americae. The raison ahint this is that Canadae haes French as ane o its offeecial leids alangside wi Inglis, an in pairticular Quebec is the anerlie Canadian province wi a predominantly French-speakin population an the anerlie ane whose sole offeecial leid is French at the provincial level. But this region is rarely considered sae, syne its history, distinctive cultur an economy, an Breetish-inspired poleetical institutions are generally deemit too closely intertwined wi the rest o Canadae.^[37]

Laitin Americae, tharefore, can be defined as aw thae pairts o the Americas that wur ance pairt o the French, Spaingie, or Portuguese Empires.^[38]

See an aw

• Argentines
• Brazilians
• Chileans
• Colombie fowk
• Costa Ricans
• Cubans
• Mexicans
• Peruvians
• Uruguayans
• Venezuelans
• Criollo fowk
• History o Laitin Americae
• Hispanic Americae
• Laitins