A handful of adults at an Oakland community college practiced how to say “good afternoon” in Mam, a Mayan language spoken in the western highlands of Guatemala. After teacher Henry Sales, a native Mam ...

Rising Voices (RV): How do you like to introduce yourself? Saqb'ech Pérez (SP): Soy Saqb’ech Pérez y soy maya mam de K’ojla’ (Cajolá, en español), en Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Soy Licenciada en ...

Bay Area's Maya community is pushing for visibility and to preserve indigenous languages Oakland's Radio B'alam station broadcasts in the Mam language The border crisis showed need for Mam ...