Linguistics professor Mark Sicoli leads two projects dedicated to analyzing and revitalizing the Zapotec-Chatino language family, native to Mexico, with an innovative method that goes beyond spoken ...

For most of human history, the survival of specific languages has relied on one generation passing it on to the next — a process that, in many speech communities, unfolds naturally. But, according to ...

After the killing last week of an Indigenous Mexican teen by police in Salinas, advocacy groups are concerned that language barriers may have played a role in the fatal encounter. Gerardo Martinez, 19 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gerardo Martinez, 19, was fatally shot by a Salinas police officer after brandishing a BB gun. Indigenous advocacy groups have ...