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Published · transcript-backedVaughn Smith: belief
7 Sept 2022 Conversations with Tyler Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot
“In Oaxaca, I think there are — yes, I think that’s about right. Fifteen, yes. When I’m talking about the Mexicans living in Oaxaca that are there — they look at these European languages and they think, “Okay, well, that’s what a real language is.”
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- Vaughn Smith
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- belief
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- 7 Sept 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…But there’s Mixtec, there’s Zapotec, Nahuatl. There must be at least 15 languages in Oaxaca. In Oaxaca, I think there are — yes, I think that’s about right. Fifteen, yes. When I’m talking about the Mexicans living in Oaxaca that are there — they look at these European languages and they think, “Okay, well, that’s what a real language is. ” They still have this prejudicial downplay on their own indigenous languages. The linguistic diversity in the state of Oaxaca is phenomenal, and the language is different, one from the other, much more so than the Germanic languages, for example, or the Romance languages. That’s very easily overlooked by the majority of the urban population of Mexico. Where do you still want to see in Mexico?…
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