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Indigenous Zoque-Ayapaneco Language Will Live on in Film When last 2 Speakers Die

“A Mexican documentary will continue to preserve aspects of the indigenous Zoque-Ayapaneco language, whose universe of ideas, beliefs and culture are on the point of vanishing when the last two native speakers, both in their 70s, pass away.”

“The people don’t want to learn the language of their ancestors out of fear of discrimination of their children…”

“When this language is spoken many people make fun of it or give it nicknames, or they even tell you that only Indians speak that language, and here the word Indian for some people is an insult, a symbol of humiliation”

Indigenous languages must survive