Thousands of Mexican natives migrate to California every year. Most speak Spanish. But others do not speak Spanish at all. Some speak an indigenous language called Zapotec. Now, San Diego State ...

Lecturer Felipe Lopez has a doctorate in urban planning from UCLA, but his UCLA office is in the indigenous languages of the Americas program. This quarter, Lopez is teaching elementary Zapotec, the ...

The words come out in abrupt breaths, as if Felipe Lopez were whispering to the chalkboard. “Rseidy. Rseidy,” he asks his students to repeat. “Learns.” “And Dizh. Dizh, say it with me, is ‘language.’ ...

Juan Luis, who moved to Los Angeles from a tiny town in Oaxaca and primarily speaks the indigenous language Zapotec, knew he was missing information about the pandemic changing life around him. In ...

The latest installment in the Worlds of Difference series documenting the impact of global change on local cultures comes from Yaganiza, an indigenous pueblo in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.

Schools were set up in rural villages to teach in both the native and Spanish languages. Few do. For as long as anyone here can remember, someone has rung the church bells in this village loud and ...

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. It's not the kind of Los Angeles County map people expect to see. Instead of geographic markers, it shows languages. The ...