A language is more than words. It carries memory, identity and a way of seeing the world. 🌎
In Guatemala, children from six Mayan language communities are receiving What Makes Us Human in the language spoken in their homes.
Through a partnership between the Guatemalan publishing house editorial_cholsamaj, UNESCO and the mayanlanguages Preservation Project, this initiative helps children read, imagine and grow, without leaving their language behind.
Some of these languages are spoken by over a million people. Others survive thanks to only a few hundred voices.
Selected by UNESCO to promote the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, What Makes Us Human has been translated into more than 37 languages worldwide, and now continues its journey in Mayan languages.
Because preserving a language is not only about the past. It is about dignity. Belonging. And a future where every child can learn in the language they call home.
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