• Videos 

This week regarding videos : meet linguist Nikte Sis Iboy and her presentation of the Kaqchikel language, a Maya language spoken in Guatemala. Her presentation (in Achi, another Mayan language) is a moving call for the preservation of local, Guatemalan, and elsewhere’s cultures and languages.

• Languages

This week’s articles on our French website : we’ve added more description sheets of languages from various places around the world.

– Europe : Occitan (and 2 variants, Aranese and Provençal), Franco-Provençal, Sardinian, Portuguese, Romanian and French

– South-East Asia : Hmong (Miao-Yao language)

– Mexico : Wasteko, Popti’, Q’anjob’al (Mayan languages), Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan language)

– French Guyana : Kali’na, Wayana (Cariban languages) and Wayampi (Tupian language)

– Senegal : Baynunk (Niger-Congo language, Atlantic branch)

– French Creole : St. Lucia Creole, Haitian Creole, Martinique Creole, Réunion Creole, Seychellois Creole (or Seselwa)

– Portuguese based Creoles : Cape Verdean Creole (or Kabuverdianu)

There’re also a few new features on our Spanish website including two new language groups : lenguas misumalpa and lenguas maya, as well as a whole page dedicated to the Hiw language.

Thank you to all of those who have shared their material: the Latin Union, Sokhna Bao-Diop, and Henri Giordan.

And, well, thank you to those of you who might contribute to other description sheets. Out of 6000 or 7000 languages on the planet, there’s still a long way for us to go…