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 ...

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.

Para leer esta historia en español, vaya a “En los últimos 20 años, un residente de Santa Ana ha mantenido la lengua de los aztecas viva.” “Okay, let's start with practice!” Davíd Vázquez says in ...

Three floors under Firestone Library in Special Collections, a group of Princeton first-year students are translating a collection of largely untouched documents from Nahuatl — an endangered, ...