Word: cakchiquel
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...north, novelty-loving Americans are willing to pay seven times the price of the full-grown product for its freshly flowered miniature equivalent. Mendez doesn't care why -- he's just glad they do. "I have my own house now, and we all eat better," says Mendez, 34, a Cakchiquel Indian descended from the Mayans, who ruled the region a thousand years...
...primitive groups by devising a written form of their language and then teaching them to read it; of leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc., which has repeated the process for 90 previously illiterate...
...take it seriously: some 30 local villagers had already been kidnaped and murdered by right-wing death squads. Told that his own name was on a right-wing hit list, the red-bearded missionary reluctantly fled the village, where he had lived and worked for 13 years among the Cakchiquel Indians, and returned to his native Okarche, Okla...
...government asked William Townsend of the University of Oklahoma's Summer Institute of Linguistics to head a mission to teach the Indians to read and write their own languages. Townsend, a friendly, energetic man who learned his first dialect (Cakchiquel) in 1917 trying to sell Bibles to the Indians of Guatemala, went to Peru in 1945 with eleven assistants. Before they could teach, Townsend and his teachers had to learn the local tongues themselves. Deciding to concentrate on the 18 most widely used dialects, they set off for the jungle...
...uptown and across the street from William Randolph Hearst's swank Ritz Tower might seem evidence of prosperity. Actually it is an eleemosynary institution, well-endowed by people who are interested in providing people all over the world with the Word in their native Worrora, K'Pelle, Cakchiquel, Zapotec, Mpongwe of Karamojong. The Society sells a well-bound Bible in English for 30?, will give one gratis to a needy person anywhere...
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