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Diidxazá

Zapotec
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Community Profile: NYC's Mexican population tripled in the 1990s, with the largest numbers arriving from Puebla and later Guerrero, south-central states with large Indigenous communities. One informal survey found that up to 17 percent of Mexican New Yorkers may speak an Indigenous language, with Mixtec and Nahuatl varieties the most widely spoken, possibly by tens of thousands. Indigenous Mexicans have generally settled among other Mexicans, and Mexicans have generally settled among other Spanish speakers in neighborhoods across the city and the region.
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he Indigenous Zapotec community in and around Los Angeles is larger than the one in and around New York, but there are speakers of Zapotecan languages (a diverse group from Oaxaca in Mexico) living in and around Latino areas of New York and New Jersey. Important clusters include former residents of San Sebastián Teitipac now in the Bronx, who have been hoping to pass on their language with a dedicated school; a community in Corona, Queens from San Pablo Güilá, which has a distinctive variety of the language; a community from San Agustín Yatareni in Poughkeepsie; and farmworkers in and around Bridgeton in southern New Jersey.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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