#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 ...
Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories. Three days had passed since Aroldo's father died. Aroldo was still mourning, and he couldn't even ...
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 ...
A view of Guatemala's Huehuetenango Department. Many native Q'anjob'al speakers of Guatemalan origin are from that department, or have family roots there. A group of Lake Worth high schoolers who call ...
Earlier this year, audiences at UNESCO’s Language Technologies for All conference witnessed a landmark event. For the first time in the international organization’s 79-year history, a native speaker ...
POCATELLO — Amid a downpour in the spring of 2005, Stanley Guenter worked quickly to excavate a panel from a Mayan temple bearing the ancient hieroglyphs of a long-dead language. It was the ...
Two of the Mayan Girls, Magda Francisco (in pink) and Ramona Francisco (in denim), gather around a laptop and phone to record a Facebook Live video about measles with Guatemalan-Maya Center outreach ...
NARRATOR: Imagine explorers arriving to find our cities deserted; our books have perished in some unknown catastrophe; all that is left to speak for us are the written words we have carved in stone.