It’s taken less than five years for Luis Mis Mis to learn two languages—English and Spanish—since arriving in San Francisco from his birthplace in the state of Yucatán in Mexico. A Mayan Indian, Mis ...

#StoriesThatInspire. Meet 10 activists who use digital media to strengthen and promote Mayan languages in Mexico. Read the inspiring story of one of the grantees selected for the 2024 Mayan Language ...

The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards Aurora Martínez - Staff ...

A study published in the journal PNAS highlights the impact of overhearing-based learning on language development in infants who are rarely spoken to directly. Tseltal mother carrying a nine-month-old ...

Over the course of five days in January 2023, digital activists and their communities, as well as speakers of Mayan languages, gathered in Merida, Mexico for the Summit of Mayan Languages Digital ...

Central to Maya identity are the Mayan languages, a family of around 30 distinct but related languages still spoken today, including K’iche’, Yucatec Maya, Q’eqchi’, Mam and Kaqchikel. These languages ...