Latinx

Etymology
Reinforced by 🇨🇬, formed on the same principle.

Pronunciation

 * , or, or sometimes as the phrase "Latino and Latina"

Adjective

 * 1)  Of Latin American descent or origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A Latin person (of any gender); a Latino or Latina.
 * 2) * 2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30:
 * Asian Latinxs [...] Chicanxs/Latinxs [...]
 * 1) * 2016 Spring, La Vida Nueva, page 48:
 * [And] there is no reason Latinxs shouldn't be the ones to fill them.
 * 1) * 2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30:
 * Asian Latinxs [...] Chicanxs/Latinxs [...]
 * 1) * 2016 Spring, La Vida Nueva, page 48:
 * [And] there is no reason Latinxs shouldn't be the ones to fill them.
 * [And] there is no reason Latinxs shouldn't be the ones to fill them.

Usage notes

 * Latinx is used as a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina, including in the plural (where Latinxs can replace long phrases like Latinos and Latinas, or the use of Latinos alone to refer to mixed-gender group, which some feminists object to), by a small number of Hispanic people and others, mostly younger people, women, and non-binary people.  Some Hispanic people object to Latinx, considering it nontraditional or "politically correct". A 2019 poll of 508 Hispanic people found that only 2% chose the term as the one term that best described them; a 2020 poll found that only 3% of US adults who identified as Hispanic or Latino also described themselves as Latinx, and only 23% had heard of Latinx (of whom 10% preferred it). A 2021 poll asked Hispanic Americans about their preference among the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx; 57% said it did not matter, and 4% chose Latinx; in a follow-up question about which term they lean toward, 5% chose Latinx.
 * As of 2023, the use of Latinx is illegal in government communications of the state of Arkansas, and gender-neutral forms including this one have been banned in education spaces in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and criticized by the Royal Spanish Academy.
 * Some people use as an alternative, saying it is more pronounceable in Spanish.

Translations

 * Spanish:, latinx, latin@