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</div></span></span></font></font></div><div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:21px">In the surrounding villages of the three community libraries currently being supported through the Rising Voices grantee project <a href="http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/grantees/xela-civic-libraries/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(112,139,56)">Xela Civic Libraries</a>, one might hear any number of indigenous languages during conversations between residents. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzaltenango_Department" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(112,139,56)">Department of Quetzaltenango</a> in Guatemala, languages such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E2%80%99iche%E2%80%99_language" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(112,139,56)">K'iche'</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam_language" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(112,139,56)">Mam</a> continue to play a central role in rural daily life. The importance of maintaining these indigenous languages has been recognized by the Riecken Libraries, which has been implementing the Civic Libraries project in the towns of Huitán, Cabricán, and San Carlos Sija.</span></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div>Access full article below:</div><a href="http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2012/08/02/languages-the-first-digital-sounds-of-mam/">http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2012/08/02/languages-the-first-digital-sounds-of-mam/</a></font></font>