Word: otomi
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...least some portion of the Bible had been published in 1,136 languages and dialects-the complete Bible in 215, the New Testament in 273, one or more Gospels in 648. During the year the society added three new languages: Huichol and Otomi (Mexican Indian) and Combe (Spanish Guinea). But there are more than 1,000 tongues in which no part of the Bible has yet appeared...
That left more than 6,000,000 illiterates (30% of the nation) to be taught, and many of them are Tarascan, Mayan, and Otomi Indians who speak only their own languages. To educate them, the government is now using a new hotly disputed technique; they are first taught to read & write in their native dialects, then are taught Spanish. Not for another year, and only after reports are in on a similar UNESCO pilot-project in Haiti, will educators decide just how good this scheme...
...brought unity; he had pacified both Left and Right; he had brought back the Church (some thought to too great power). He had not hugged the Indians to death, but he had paid attention to their problems, had undertaken the redemption of the poverty-racked Otomi Indians of Hidalgo State, overlooked even by Cardenas. Under his rule collaboration with the U.S. was closer than Mexico had ever known: The surly oil question, the creaking state of the railways, the migraine of foreign debt were all yielding their terrors...
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