Helping indigenous Mexicans: Official visits Central Coast to gather data (fwd link)

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Helping indigenous Mexicans: Official visits Central Coast to gather data

By CLAUDIA MELÉNDEZ SALINAS
Herald Staff Writer
Posted: 11/05/2011 01:32:25 AM PDT
USA

According to the Mexican government, there are 364 indigenous
languages spoken there. At least seven of them are spoken in Monterey
County, researchers said.

Last week, Javier Lopez Sanchez, Mexico's director of the National
Institute of Indigenous Languages, came to California's Central Coast
on a fact finding mission to learn more about the needs among speakers
of indigenous languages and develop support programs for them.

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