There are some five million Indians belonging to 50 tribes in Mexico. Few of them speak Spanish; many have never had their di alect written. These In dians are from the Tlapa- neco Tribe (see map p. 15).
Perched on a thin mountain ridge over 7,000 ft. up is airstrip for the Tlapaneco Mission. Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Lemley (next page) were first missionaries to work with tribe, labored nearly 15 years to reduce the dialect into writing. While Lemleys work independently, major ity of translation work in Mexico is being done by Wycliffe Bible Translators.
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