Academy of the Mixtec Language

{{More citations needed|date=December 2007}} The '''Academy of the Mixtec Language''' ({{langx|mix|'''Ve'e Tu'un Sávi'''}}, meaning "House of the Language of the Rain"; {{langx|es|'''Academia de la Lengua Mixteca'''}}) was founded in 1997 by a group of indigenous activists from the [[Mixtec people]], with the aim of creating mechanisms for the preservation and usage promotion of the [[Mixtecan languages]], their indigenous languages.

It has its headquarters in the city of [[Tlaxiaco]], in the heart of the [[La Mixteca|Mixteca]] region of the [[Mexican state]] of [[Oaxaca]].

Among other undertakings, it has worked with the federal [[Secretariat of Public Education]] on designing the writing system used for Mixtec language instruction for children belonging to this ethnic group. It has also sponsored gatherings of indigenous writers and maintains cooperative ties with various other bodies in Mexico, the [[United States]], and other parts of the world. One such organization, the [[Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB)|Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales]] (FIOB) has a radio station that broadcasts in Mixtec in the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]].

==References== *[https://www.academia.edu/3829700/How_the_Summer_Institute_of_Linguistics_has_developed_orthographies_for_indigenous_languages_of_Mexico Orthographies for indigenous languages of Mexico] ([[SIL International]]) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090610054509/http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/july18-03/lengua.htm La Casa de la Lengua de la Lluvia: Esfuerzos por lograr que el idioma mixteco pueda escribirse]

[[Category:Indigenous languages of Mexico]] [[Category:Language advocacy organizations|Mixtec]] [[Category:Mixtec]] [[Category:Mesoamerican studies]]