<b>Mexican Indigenous Language to Live on After Last Two Speakers Die<br></b><br>Published September 21, 2012<br>Fox News Latino<br><br>The indigenous Zoque-Ayapaneco language, once spoken by a vibrant minority near Tabasco, Mexico, will vanish when the final two native speakers, both in their 70s, pass away.<br>
<br>But it will live on a documentary, “Lengua Muerta,” which chronicles the last of the 364 aboriginal dialects still surviving in Mexico.<br><br>The movie features Isidro Velazquez, 70, and Manuel Segovia, 77, who will take to the grave a language widely spoken until the middle of the 20th century.<br>
<br>“We’re beginning to investigate and we’re discovering that it is the language that is vanishing most rapidly in Mexico and worldwide,” said director Denisse Quintero. “It’s the one with the fewest speakers, just two, and they’re elderly. When they die, it will practically cease to exist.”<br>
<br>“It’s not a rescue, but rather it consists of creating an audiovisual registry, a memory, so that other generations can have access to it, given that it’s very difficult to rescue the language,” also explained producer Laura Berron.<br>
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