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Huiquipedia

22 February 2010

Since 2003, Mexico has recognized the right of indigenous students to receive an education in their own language.  There are, according to the Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales 68 language groups and 364 total language variants (not all of which may have speakers of school age).

The indigenous population has the least access to educational services, and is the sector with the worst infrastructure and teaching materials. An estimated 8.3 percent of the students between six and 14 years not attending school and are speakers of one of the indigenous languages.  Nahuatl  — being the most widely spoken of the indigenous languages — has the most developed curriculum, and the Huiquipedia is available to help Nahuatl students with their homework. It’s not complete, with only 184,457 entries there are several million articles still needed, so it desperately needs more so Tlatequitiltilīlli (contributors).

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