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 ...

On a weekday morning, in an upscale area of Arlington, Va., the suburban silence is as thick as the foliage save for the hum of a leaf blower or an occasional car. In one of the homes, Sheba Velasco ...

Aldo Barriente will continue his studies in the Mayan language as the University of Virginia’s seventh Beinecke Scholar. The Lithia Springs, Georgia, native, a third-year linguistics and computer ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Growing up, as he considered his career possibilities, he entertained the idea of being a lawyer, like his dad; or maybe a small forward in the NBA, like his boyhood hero Adrian ...

#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 ...

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 ...

El, an indigenous Maya Ixil immigrant originally from Guatemala, stands with one of her daughters, Gabriela, 7, outside the Labor Resource Center in Centreville, Virginia one Sunday in October. The ...

A University of Virginia language professor will join a colleague from the UVa School of Data Sciences in an effort to preserve two languages edging closure to extinctions. The National Science ...

LAKE WORTH, Fla. — An organization in Palm Beach County is working to battle cultural and language barriers to health care, making sure there is access for the local indigenous Maya community. Staff ...

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