This page compiles resources for a number of different Less Commonly Taught Languages meaning it is not limited only to K’iche’ and Kaqchikel. These include languages of Asia, Africa and of indigenous groups of North and South America.
Existing Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) or Indigenous Language Resources
Yolitia- Centro de Lenguas Indoamericanas
This is an online language learning service that offers classes in Mixeco, P’urhépecha, and “Maya”. These are languages that are primarily spoken in Mexico and are offered for Spanish speakers. Classes are offered in the Fall and Spring– for more information about class enrollment deadlines, fees and language levels, please visit their Twitter and Facebook pages.
The Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America
AILLA is a digital language archive of recordings, texts, and other multimedia materials in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America. AILLA’s mission is to preserve these materials and make them available to Indigenous Peoples, researchers, and other friends of these languages now and for generations to come.
CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition) at University of Minnesota
The user can search by state, which is helpful for in-person programs. You can also see the level of instruction. When you click on a program you are given very clear general details.
Resource Type: Database of Language Learning Programs
CARLA Resources for Online Language Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This is an archive of resources that language teachers can use to navigate online instruction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resource Type: Database of resources for online language instruction
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
This website features information regarding language instruction in LCTL such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Yoruba, Russian, and Swahili, among others. This page offers connections to language learning opportunities in these languages and facilitates the exchange of knowledge in such languages.
Resource Type: General information about conferences, publications, awards and grants for scholars of LCTL in the United States.
National Foreign Language Center (University of Maryland):
NFLC at the University of Maryland is a hub for information for students, teachers and supervisors for compiling resources and research materials in different languages spoken throughout the world. Since 1986, the NFLC has been at the forefront developing language policy and resource development.
Resource Type: Resource hub for learners, teachers, and administrators of foreign language; Information foreign language policy
APPS that support LCTL or indigenous language learning
This is an indigenous language database with access to learning material for indigenous languages of North, Central and South America.
Languages: Cherokee, Algonquian, Alutiiq, Choctaw, Citizen Potawatomi, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Lakota, Nahautl, Yucatec Maya, K’iche’, Quechua, Guarani
John Garcia (Mixteco, Nahautl)
This application offers limited vocabulary and language resources for Ancient Literary Mayan, Mixteco and Nahautl. These resources are mostly dictionaries but they also offer books to facilitate language learning.
This page compiles a number of indigenous language learning applications used to develop language skills. Languages feature on this page include Inuktitut, Nyoogar, Iwaidja, Cree, Anindilyakwa, Maori, Inuvialuktun, Quecha, Aymara, Guaraní, among others. Though this page is a review of the applications available, it is a good launch point for access specific indigenous language learning material.