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<p class=""><b><font face="times new roman, serif" size="6">Immigrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages Encounter Isolation</font></b></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span class="" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b>By </b><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/kirk_semple/index.html"><span class=""><b>KIRK SEMPLE</b></span></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">JULY 10, 2014</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Laura is a Mexican immigrant who lives in East Harlem, a neighborhood with one of the largest Latino populations in New York City. Yet she understands so little of what others are saying around her that she might just as well be living in Siberia.</p>
<p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Laura, 27, speaks Mixtec, a language indigenous to Mexico. But she knows little Spanish and no English. She is so scared of getting lost on the subway and not being able to find her way home that she tends to spend her days within walking distance of her apartment.</p>
<p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">“I feel bad because I can’t communicate with people,” she said, partly in Spanish, partly in Mixtec. “I can’t do anything.”</p>
<p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Laura, who asked that her last name not be revealed because she does not have legal immigration status, is among hundreds if not thousands of indigenous people from Latin America living in the New York region who speak neither the dominant language of the city, English, nor the dominant language of the broader Latino community, Spanish.</p>
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