This Website contains several activities to learn Tù’un na Ñuu Sá Mátxíí Ntxè’è, the Mixtec variety spoken in San Martín Duraznos (Oaxaca, Mexico). In the activities tab on the menu you will find the materials organized around topics: animals, food, colors, etc. First, you will hear the words with their meaning and then you will have games to play and recognize the words you have just learned. As you go through each collection, games will become more challenging. You will start with simple words and slowly you will build up to playing with combinations of words and sentences. Have fun!
With these activities, our goal is to support Mixtec language maintenance among the Mixtec diaspora in the US. Our team is made of community members, linguists and educators working together to incorporate and transform materials collected as part of ongoing documentation efforts to describe Mixtec varieties in the California diaspora.
Welcome to 'Let's Learn Mixteco'
In the activities tab on the menu you will find activities to learn Tù’un na Ñuu Sá Mátxíí Ntxè’è Mixtec.
sharing indigenous knowledge
The activities are based on the worldview and the indigenous knowledge of the Mixtec people.
All the materials are designed with the Mixtec community in Ventura County, CA.
Our vision is non-profit and community-serving. All the media resources we incorporate are royalty-free.
community-based design
open access & non-profit
Learning mixtec language
Big Ideas
Funding
Let’s Learn Mixteco was awarded an Honorable Mention from the Big Ideas Contest organized by the Blum Center at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the Rudd Family Foundation
Educaplay
User Interface Text Translation
The online platform Educaplay has kindly supported this project by allowing us to translate and implementing their entire interface into Mixtec, so that learners can learn Mixtec in Mixtec!
Project supporters 😄
Foundation for Endangered Languages
Funding
The development of games to learn Tù’un na Ñuu Sá Mátxíí Ntxè’è was also supported by a grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages.