Documenting a dying dialect: mavericks learn to study and record the native language of the Triqui (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Documenting a dying dialect: mavericks learn to study and record the native
language of the Triqui

Written by Allen Baldwin, The Shorthorn staff
MONDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2010 08:41 PM
USA

In a small village in southern Mexico, women clad in huipiles, colorful
ponchos with stripes, converse with each other in Triqui, their native
language. A language that may soon be gone.

Raymond Elliott, modern language department chair, linguistics professor
Jerold Edmondson and a small group of students travelled to a remote
indigenous village in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, for the past two summers.

The group went to document and study the language of Chicahuaxtlan Triqui.

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