OAKLAND -- In the heart of Oakland's Fruitvale District, a unique community thrives as it works to preserve an ancient Mayan language known as Mam. This language, native to Guatemala, is finding a new ...

Within the Bay Area's Hispanic community is a group of indigenous Maya people from Guatemala and Mexico whose first language is not Spanish, but a native language called Mam. It is fundamentally ...

Mam Indigenous people come to this country and have a complete language shock. As many of them come to the United States as monolingual speakers, it becomes essentially impossible for them to ...