[NIFL-FAMILY:1040] Re: Cora Indian language resources

From: Carol Mazer (cmazer@pcc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 16:18:20 EDT


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Hi Cathy,
Perhaps the Oregon Justice Department in their interpreter listings has 
someone who may have knowledge of the language. It might not even be a 
written language.
Carol Mazer

At 09:09 PM 4/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Here's a good one. I just spent about an hour online searching and didn't 
>come up with much.
>Is anyone serving Cora Indians (from Mexico) in their classes? I just 
>visited a program where two families are Cora. They don't speak English 
>and speak a very tiny little bit of Spanish.
>
>I have sent e-mails to Mexican consulate and to Linguistics dept at 
>University of Oregon. Ask.com preoduced a little bit of info.
>It's really interesting. I did learn that only 8000 speakers of this 
>language remain. And they're from the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. 
>Until recently a very isolated people so their culture remained intact.
>
>Does anyone have any interpreter/translation resources or -- what would be 
>great--- a dictionary.
>Ideas?
>
>If we wanted to broaden this topic, I guess it would be, how can we 
>communicate with language minority parents in family literacy to explain 
>to them what we're doing and can do with them.
>
>Cathy Lindsley
>Even Start coordinator in Oregon

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Hi Cathy,<br>
Perhaps the Oregon Justice Department in their interpreter listings has
someone who may have knowledge of the language. It might not even be a
written language.<br>
Carol Mazer<br><br>
At 09:09 PM 4/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Here's a
good one. I just spent about an hour online searching and didn't come up
with much.</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Is anyone serving Cora Indians (from Mexico) in
their classes? I just visited a program where two families are Cora. They
don't speak English and speak a very tiny little bit of
Spanish.</font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I have sent e-mails to Mexican consulate and to
Linguistics dept at University of Oregon. Ask.com preoduced a little bit
of info.</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>It's really interesting. I did learn that only
8000 speakers of this language remain. And they're from the Sierra Madre
mountains of Mexico. Until recently a very isolated people so their
culture remained intact.</font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Does anyone have any interpreter/translation
resources or -- what would be great--- a dictionary.</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Ideas?</font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>If we wanted to broaden this topic, I guess it
would be, how can we communicate with language minority parents in family
literacy to explain to them what we're doing and can do with
them.</font><br>
&nbsp;<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Cathy Lindsley</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Even Start coordinator in
Oregon</font></blockquote></html>

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