ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUNTA GORDA, Honduras — When Reina Martinez speaks to her 14-year-old granddaughter, she uses Garifuna, the language of her youth in this colorful island village.
But when Cassandra Ballesteros answers, it's not in Garifuna.
"I understand, but I don't speak it," she said. "I can't."
She responds in Honduran Spanish, the language she learns in school and the one she's more likely to hear on the dirt roads that run through her centuries-old village tucked between dense mangroves and vast coral reefs on the island of Roatan.
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