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Santa Maria Ixcatlan, Mexico, Feb 20 (EFE).- Silence reigns in this southern Mexican village whose only sounds are the murmur of wild palm trees, the chiming of church bells and the voice of nonagenarian Pedro Salazar, one of the six remaining speakers of a language known as Ixcatec.(CAMERA: José Cortés)IMAGES: RESOURCES IXCATLÁN. SOUNDBITES BY PEDRO SALAZAR AND LADY MARIA. LADY MARIA (00:03:38): 1. "Without the palm we don't eat" 2. "No, there are no people who speak anymore (Ixcatec), we are few, we are about four or five nothing more, there is another lady who Ignacia called who lives there, but since she is very old she doesn't talk much anymore, and her daughter talks a little bit. " 3. "When we went to school, the teachers told us that I no longer spoke Ixcateco, and that's why I stopped talking about it, I didn't learn everything anymore"PEDRO SALAZAR: "If I had someone to talk to, I could talk about anything in Ixcatec, but since there isn't anyone ... If you answer me in Ixcatec, then we'll talk"

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