Tabasco: Ayapan Echoes - Linguistic Persistence And Loss In Tabasco, Mexico

Tabasco: Ayapan Echoes - Linguistic Persistence And Loss In Tabasco, Mexico   Daniel F. Suslak, 2011   Ayapaneco is an indigenous Mexican language that—according to a widely circulating story—is dying because its last two fluent speakers refuse to speak to each other. In 2006–07, their case was publicized by Mexico's National Indigenous Language Institute (INALI), picked up by several international news agencies, broadcast on television, and repeated in various media. In this article,...

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