The descendant of the ancient Aztec language is one of many endangered indigenous languages. Although there may still be a million speakers of Nahuatl, it is not being transmitted to a new generation.

It’s the language that gave us the words for chocolate and tomato, with sounds whose “i” hum lingers in listeners’ ears. Now a small group of New Yorkers wants to make sure the enigmatic-sounding ...

A trend has emerged in New Mexico prisons that utilizes an ancient language and has concerned officials.Inmates are using the Aztec language to talk in code, officials said.The State Corrections ...

San Diego State will soon offer course on the language of the Aztecs. Meghan Burk said the announcement comes a month after an advisory group to the university's president voted to discontinue use of ...

San Diego State is reviving a course on the indigenous Aztec language, Nahuatl, next semester. The announcement comes as faculty and students revive a decade-long debate on campus about the ...

David Vazquez, center, hosted a Nahuatl exhibition in 2017 at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana. (Courtesy of Episcopal Church of the Messiah) Francisco Barragan had been grieving his ...

Milpa Alta – which maintains traditions from its pre-Columbian past – feels like a tiny mountain village, making it hard to believe that it’s part of Mexico City. In the 1970s, before workers laid the ...

Francisco Barragan had been grieving his mother’s death and subsequent sense of loneliness for nearly a year when his Aztec-language teacher offered a different perspective. From the basement of an ...

Milpa Alta – which maintains traditions from its pre-Columbian past – feels like a tiny mountain village, making it hard to believe that it’s part of Mexico City. In the 1970s, before workers laid the ...