Mixtec languages

I'm really happy to be here.

I speak Spanish, English, Mixteco.

I grew up speaking Mixteco.

I'm a trilingual interpreter.

I'm learning my fourth language, which is Tariqi.

That's so important.

I'm really glad you touched on that because that is something that I hear as well, where it's like, oh, great, great.

You know, you speak, you speak Mixteco or maybe it's Mien or Mam or one of the languages of limited diffusion where there's not a lot of interpreters.

Hmm.

But in our staff speaks, uh, Mixteco, Zapoteco, Triqui, Chatino, Amuzgo, Tlapaneco.

And just within those six core languages, we have many variants of that language.

Just our Mixteco alone, uh, is, uh, super complex.

Uh, there's 81, 82 different variations of Mixteco, which means that people that speak a different variation may not understand another person with that same variation.

It's not, again, it's not like one, it's just one language.

They're really complex, and there's different, uh, variation of all of that languages.

That is correct.

So we decided to add an indigenous language, which is called Mixteco.

And when ordering the piece, there wasn't an option for an indigenous language.

So we had to, as a group of students and our advisor, we emailed the company and called the company saying, hey, Most of our student body has indigenous roots, parents, etc., and speak the language Mixteco.

Kelly, is there a way we can add the language or how can we honor them? That is amazing.

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