Want to know how to say more than tlazocamati (thank you) in the language of the Aztecs? David Vasquez's Saturday-morning classes at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana are the sole spot ...

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 ...

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.

For the first time, public schools in Mexico City are offering Nahuatl as an elective subject. The government of Mexico City, ...

"The smoking stars gather against it and the one who cares for flowers is about to be destroyed." This was the way one Aztec poem foretold the crushing of empire and culture that would come at the ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...