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Show Experts Study Speech of Mexican Indian Tribe Mexico City. Students of pre-Spanlsh pre-Spanlsh cultures In Mexico are awaiting the results of an investigation investiga-tion In an isolated district of the Huasteca, near the frontier of Vera Cruz, San Luis Potosl and Hidalgo states. An Indian tribe, which Inhabits the district Is said to si eak the language of the Mayas, although other Indian dialects are spoken on all sides and the nearest point where other Mayan Indians live In numbers Is Yucatan, many hundreds of miles away. The Investigators are a Spaniard and a pure-blooded Mayan. The Spaniard is Dr." Manuel J. Andrade, a professor of philology at the University of Chicago. As a specialist In the Mayan language, he has collaborated with the Carnegie Car-negie Institute's expedition In Yucatan. Yu-catan. The Mayan Is Alfredo P.ar-rera, P.ar-rera, professor of the Mayan language lan-guage at the National museum here. |