<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Documenting a dying dialect: mavericks learn to study and record the native language of the Triqui </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Written by Allen Baldwin, The Shorthorn staff </span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">MONDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2010 08:41 PM</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
USA<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"></span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In a small village in southern Mexico, women clad in huipiles, colorful ponchos with stripes, converse with each other in Triqui, their native language. A language that may soon be gone.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Raymond Elliott, modern language department chair, linguistics professor Jerold Edmondson and a small group of students travelled to a remote indigenous village in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, for the past two summers.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The group went to document and study the language of Chicahuaxtlan Triqui.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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