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The Zapotec

They say the Zapotec language is departing, / that no one will speak it anymore, / it died, they say, / the language of the Zapotecs.

The language of the Zapotecs will be taken away by the devil, / now the cultured Zapotecs only speak Spanish.

Ay, Zapotec Zapotec that which you least value, / you don’t know how much your mothers love you.

Language that you give me to give life, / I know you'll die the day the sun dies.

Painting on t-shirt by Jean Foss, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2017.