Mexico linguists want Indian languages in schools (fwd link)

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Mexico linguists want Indian languages in schools

Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:09pm EDT
By Mariano Castillo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican indigenous language specialists want to bring
native tongues into elementary schools to prevent them from dying out.

The National Institute for Indigenous Languages, or INALI, is proposing to teach
indigenous children in their native tongue alongside Spanish, and having
Spanish-speaking children study a local Indian language.

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