This paper describes the first documentation exercise for revitalizing the K’anjob’al language through the production of bilingual material (indigenous language-Spanish) in a community of high linguistic vitality in the municipality of La Trinitaria Chiapas (Mexico). The production of this material promoted literacy practices, understood as social practices in which reading and writing are used for specific objectives and purposes, in a context where such practices are limited or non-existent. Based on collaborative anthropology, the methodology consisted of eliciting information from three field seasons in the last semester of 2019. The results obtained from two phases are presented in the development section: i) documentation of language and culture and ii) material validation. Therefore, the progress of this research is based on three premises: a) through literacy practices to str...

Mexico is a country with a broad linguistic and cultural diversity. Certainly this is due to their number of languages, their sociocultural groups, and their dialectal variation. All of these characteristics show certain degree of language shift. However, every language needs to begin taking different actions (at the political, institutional, methodological level) for reversing language shift. This article aims to show the development of the project Revitalization of Endangered Languages Projects in Southern Mexico, 2014. This project was proposed by the Office’s Language Policies Assistant Director, National Institute of Indigenous Languages (Mexico). Specifically, the scope in this article is to describe the background of this project and how the six local or communal sub-projects linked to it have started revitalizing endangered languages with high degree or a very high degree of va...