In this photo file, an Aztec dancer performs in Mexico City. Several languages and dialects in Mexico are being spoken for the last time, only a handful of elderly residents still speak the ancient Aztec dialect of Nahuatl. Nahuatl is on the list of languages worldwide facing extinction.

First published in the June 29, 2011, 3:00 a.m. edition

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