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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:micc2@cox.net">micc2@cox.net</a><br>
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Tue, 28 Aug 2007 <br>
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Piali compaleh huan comaleh,<br>
<br>
I have worked for a short time interpreting for a few Nahuatl
defendants in<br>
court (mostly immigration cases). The men I have worked with have come
from<br>
the Sierra de Puebla, and Guerrero. Based in this tiny sample, It seems<br>
that most Nahuatl workers first go to Mexico City, Matamoros, Nuevo<br>
Laredo,or Ciudad Juarez.. Here in San Diego county, there is a large
Mixteco<br>
community, as there is in L.A. county. I know of only one family of
Nahuatl<br>
speakers. they came here from Guerrero. I also know there is one Huichol<br>
artisan that lives here. <br>
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Perhaps until now, the Nahuatl speakers lived in more economically<br>
sustainable areas than the Mixteco and Maya. I have only met one
Purepecha<br>
speaking immigrant here in San Diego, and a few Yoremi.<br>
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Mario<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mexicayotl.org">www.mexicayotl.org</a><br>
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