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| chiquitaplatano Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4647 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 12 07 March 2012 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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Im very new to this forum but im wondering why i dont see any indigenous languages of
Mexico on the list of languages. Im told that many people in Mexico still speak Mayan, Mixtec and Nahuatl. Am i missing the threads somehow, im not getting the search thing to work well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6553 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes  1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 12 07 March 2012 at 8:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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Bi xchih 'awo'tan (hi)
There are thousands of languages you don't see in the list of languages but "Mayan", Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Nahuatl are in the tags. Edited by zenmonkey on 07 March 2012 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| chiquitaplatano Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4647 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 3 of 12 07 March 2012 at 8:14am | IP Logged | |||||
what is this language and why isnt it on your list of spoken languages? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5472 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 12 07 March 2012 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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And don't forget Ayapaneco
A frustrating situation for linguists who are trying to study the language when the only two remaining native speakers of the language hate each other and refuse to talk! Last two speakers of dying language not on speaking terms dailymail 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6553 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 12 08 March 2012 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
That is Tzeltal, I learned about a dozen phrases in Chiapas, a few more of Huichol and I had a small Nahautl vocabulary from my maid as a child. Most Mexicans know at least some Nahuatl from name places like Iztaccíhuatl, a volcano (white, woman), Chapultepec (grasshopper hill) and loan words used in Mexican Spanish like cacahuate (peanuts). In English and other languages avocado, tomato, chocolate, guacamole, nagual, pulque, peyote, ocelot, axolotl and chile are other loan words borrowed from Nahuatl. I don't have those languages in my list (and a few others) because I don't speak them and I'm not studying them at all now. - I could at best say hello and say a few phrases like "The fried crickets are good" and "I'm thirsty". My Italian and Portugues are way better but I'm barely studying them. I'll only place languages that I find I have some level of mastery or at least 20-40 hours in the last year. Edited by zenmonkey on 08 March 2012 at 10:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 6 of 12 11 March 2012 at 12:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Mayan is not a single language but actually a family of languages spoken in Southern Mexico and throughout parts of Central America.
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| chiquitaplatano Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4647 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 7 of 12 11 March 2012 at 8:11am | IP Logged | |||||
im aware that there are several dialects, i have only heard one while in Chiapas Mexico spoken by a merchant and translated into Spanish by her granddaughter. Id like to see more on this forum about the languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 8 of 12 11 March 2012 at 11:54am | IP Logged | |||||
I can certainly appreciate that. I've always had a huge soft spot in my heart for "minority" languages since I think they can be among the most interesting languages in the world. I try to learn them, or at least collect resources for them when I can. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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