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A growing number of Mexicans in the US don’t speak Spanish
by Kristina Puga <http://nbclatino.com/author/kristinapuga/>,
@kristinapuga<http://twitter.com/kristinapuga>
5:00 am on 11/29/2012
USA

No, Latinos don’t speak “Mexican,” and Mexicans don’t all speak Spanish.

The City University of New York’s Institute of Mexican Studies is hosting a
workshop today called “Mexico’s Forgotten
Languages<http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cuny-mexican-studies-institute/documents/IndigenousWorkshopflyer.pdf>,”
to educate others on the diversity of languages spoken in Mexican
communities in the U.S.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community
Survey<http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/may/28/some-ny-immigrants-cite-lack-of-spanish-as-barrier/>,
the number of Central and South American Indian language-speakers in the
U.S. was about 13,500 between 2005 and 2009.

[media: video]

However, Leslie Martino-Velez, Associate Director of CUNY Institute of
Mexican Studies, who has been studying the Mexican indigenous community for
nearly a decade, says that the numbers are most likely more but are hard to
precisely decipher.

“It’s hard to pinpoint numbers, because one of the challenges of the
indigenous Mexican community is that there’s a lot of stigma of being
indigenous,” she says. “So when they come here, they may not say they are
indigenous or teach their kids their language and culture.”

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