Indigenous Mexican Language Faces Extinction As Last Two Speakers Stop Talking To Each Other (fwd link)

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Indigenous Mexican Language Faces Extinction As Last Two Speakers Stop
Talking To Each Other

November 16, 2007 5:41 a.m. EST
Ishita Sukhadwala - AHN News Writer

Ayapan, Mexico (AHN) - The last two speakers of an indigenous Mexican
language have stopped talking to each other, raising fears that the
language will become extinct.

The two men in their 70s from the village of Ayapan, Tabasco, in southern
Mexico, are the only remaining speakers of their local version of the Zoque
language.

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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009177830



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