This morning I woke to the sound of music — a live trio singing traditional Mexican boleros drifted through an open window. Though it was 6:15 AM, I couldn’t help smiling at being awakened to romantic songs like these sung by Trio Los Panchos.
On this Valentine’s Day, known in Mexico as Día del Amor y la Amistad (Day of Love and Friendship), some much loved person was being serenaded.
Once the calendar turned to February, hearts, flowers, balloons, candy, and stuffed animals have been featured in windows and sidewalk vendor displays.
¡Feliz Día del Amor y la Amistad! And, because International Mother Language Day is coming up on February 21, learn to say “I love you” to lovers and friends in 7 of the 69 indigenous languages spoken in Mexico — including Zapoteco, Mixteco, and a couple of other languages spoken in Oaxaca.
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I think it would be lovely if Valentine’s Day were celebrated as publicly and festively here in the US, and included friends. And thanks for the links on indigenous languages. There are SO many in Mexico. Even the Maya in that group of 7 I Love You’s turns out to be Yucatec Maya, which is one of about 28 Maya languages (more or less, depending on how you classify) in the entire Maya region. Many are mutually unintelligible just as French and Spanish are.