Latin American Indigenous Language Speakers Face Communication Obstacles In New York City (fwd link)

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Latin American Indigenous Language Speakers Face Communication
Obstacles In New York City

Posted by Roque Planas on Nov 11th, 2010

NEW YORK – When she was six years old, Reina Carranza traveled to the
city of Tlapa, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, from her home on the
urban periphery. In Tlapa, she learned Spanish. Twelve years later,
she continued on to New  York City, where she’s been ever since.

Carranza is part of a growing wave of Latin American immigrants to the
city whose first language is not Spanish, but rather an indigenous
language – in Carranza’s case, Mixteco. Her fluency in Spanish and
Mixteco has allowed her to contribute her services as an intepreter
for the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
(LSAFHS) in East Harlem.

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