Ayapaneco
| Ayapaneco ( Nuumte Oote ) | ||
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Spoken in |
Mexico | |
| speaker | 2 (2011) | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Ayapaneco , called Nuumte Oote in its own language (German "True Voice"), is one of 68 indigenous languages in Mexico . It belongs to the Mixe-Zoque language family . In 2011 it is only spoken fluently by two people. They live in Ayapa , Tabasco state , but do not want to talk to each other.
In 2014, the two were brought back together through an advertising campaign by Vodafone . They settled their quarrel. With the support of the company and the retired linguistics professor James A. Fox, a language school was set up in the city where the last speakers introduce the language to children.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ayapaneco at Ethnologue
- ↑ Language at risk of dying out - the last two speakers aren't talking. In: The Guardian , April 13, 2011 ( online )
- ↑ The last two Ayapaneco speakers do not want to talk to each other derStandard.at - article from April 17, 2011.
- ↑ http://mobil.horizont.net/news/Auftritt-des-Tages-Wie-Vodafone-eine-Ssprache-vor-dem-Aussterben-bewahren-will_120629.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Antonio García de León: El Ayapaneco: Una variant del zoqueano en la chontalpa tabasqueña. In: Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Epoca 7, Vol. 2, 1971, ZDB -ID 438151-8 , pp. 209-224.
- Jhonnatan Rangel: How many speakers of Ayapa Zoque? In: Where's the last speaker? May 19, 2016, ISSN 2494-2073 , ( online ).
- Daniel Suslak: Ayapan Echoes: Linguistic Persistence and Loss in Tabasco, Mexico. In: American Anthropologist. Bd. 113, No. 4, 2011, ISSN 0002-7294 , pp. 569-581, doi : 10.1111 / j.1548-1433.2011.01370.x .
- Daniel Suslak: Who Can Save Ayapaneco? How Vodafone Exploited an Endangered Language to Build its Brand . On Schwa-fire.com.