Launching Digital Language Tools: K’iche’ and Yukatek Maya Community Workshops
Spring 2024 Center Grant Recipients
Research by:
- Allison Bigelow (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese)
- Rafael Alvarado (Data Science)
We are supporting Maya-led teams in Yucatán and Guatemala to launch digital resources for long-term language revindication in their communities. Since 2020, our project has been funded by CGII, VPR, and the NSF to develop 5 new editions of the ancient narrative Popol Wuj. In 2024-2025, Tz’utujil, K’iche’, Q’eqchi’, and Yukatek students and faculty from linguistics, psychology, communications, and art will travel to monolingual towns and host workshops at their home universities so that elders, parents, students, and youth can learn how to use these interactive texts and videos, while the UVA team completes the backbone and infrastructure here in Charlottesville.
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Podcast
Digitalizing the Popol Wuj
Discover how UVA professors Allison Bigelow and Rafael Alvarado are partnering with Mayan scholars and communities to preserve and revitalize K’iche and Yukatek languages.
