Totonac

Classification: Totonacan

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Mexico’s Indigenous teachers fight to preserve ancient cultures in math class

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-mexicos-indigenous-teachers-fight-to-preserve-ancient-cultures-in/

An article about the Totonac language's 71 different systems of counting and the struggles speakers face to maintain their language when they study math at school in Spanish, which has a different counting system.

Alexandra Osváth

Mexico City

Jan. 1, 2018

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