[NYTr] In Mexico, Indigenous Culture in Jeopardy
 
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:25:08 -0500 (CDT)

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Mexico's Indigenous Culture in Jeopardy

Mexico, August 15 (RHC-PL)-Just a few people older than 70 cam speak any of
the 14 indigenous languages that make up Mexico's cultural diversity say
experts.

Research Director of the National Indigenous Languages Institute (INALI),
Fidencio Briceno, warned that the dialects would disappear if that trend
continues.

He referred to the "Ayapaenco" language only spoken by two elderly people
in the locality of Tabasco and to "Aguacateco" spoken by less than 80
people.

Migration hampers the teaching of the languages to the younger generations
despite the programs encouraged by INALI to stem the trend.

Similarly, the expert attributed the threats of serious extinction of the
"Maya" or the "Nahuatl" dialects, spoken by hundreds of people, to the
exodus of indigenous inhabitants seeking better economic opportunties.
At present, the 62 indigenous languages existing in Mexico are at risk of
disappearing, a danger the Institute is committed to preventing stated the
official.
       
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