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[@JasonBechtelTeaches]

This is so important! Please keep making videos like this about less-studied languages, endangered languages, and especially about **how the communities are reviving their languages**. And, I'm glad you interviewed multiple native speakers and community language activists. So awesome. Great work.

[@LindsayDowLanguages]

Thank you, Jason! Glad you enjoyed the episode. We're keeping on the lookout for community language activists as we go for future episodes! :)

[@jinengi]

First of all, let me thank you for this video. This topic has always seen really interesting to me. Besides that, I have to say that this video is by far the most professional and well-made video I've seen this last month on youtube.
About the Maya/ Mayan languages, I think they're so beautiful. I want to learn one these languages so hard (though it's difficult if I don't live there).
Even though it's not dead, it looks like a language which is endangered because of the loosing-speakers trouble that almost every single language without a country has. I have this friend in Mexico and he told me that the native languages are treated as something with less value. Signs in the street are not enough, but education is. This friend told me that this is really difficult cause there're lots of languages inside maya or nauatl, so I think that they should make standards and assign the different languages to a specific territory, and then put those languages as the languages of education. Also allow these languages in public administration and services.
But well, feel free to correct my english mistakes

[@LindsayDowLanguages]

Thank you for your lovely comment! :) You're right, education is really key. And it seems also (from what I learnt so far making this series) that making the language relevant and putting it in a modern context of sorts helps to create a feeling of pride, which is also important too :)

[@jasminmarroquin3779]

I would like to learn a Mayan Language, I would love that more people speaked that language, because it could be a wonderful cultural exchange. For me all languages are important because they are part of the history of the world,and help us for communicating each other, Great Job Lindsay Williams, maybe seeing your video more people could get interested in studying mayan languages, like I get inspired and its going to be my purpose for this year.

[@karlacasas3076]

I'm glad to had you in my state and how you show to the world our problem about mayan language. This is so real, in our city Merida, since we were kids we did not learn almost anything about the mayan language, you have to go to other municipalities away from the city (but in Yucatan), to meet people who speaks maya.

[@chuckdavidson5483]

Fascinating. My son just returned from Guatemala to study Mayan with a family of Maya speakers.

[@WumbologistPhD]

Utz! I have spent time with many Guatemalan immigrants to the US and it's so interesting to find out how many also speak a Mayan language. This is a great video

[@princewilliams1384]

This video is so amazingly well done, it's a shame more people haven't seen it.

[@gilesellis8002]

Lindsey, fascinating, I spent 6 months in Cancun early 80's as a Chef, 30 give or take in the Kitchen including Mayans, 5,
I think, Not the easiest Language to Learn, but a Wonderful Culture, went back again to Teotihuacan 1987 for a year.
Mexico has a lot going for it 'Lindo y Querido'.

[@angelarunnels9366]

Thank you 👍🏽

[@maelysmay1406]

This was so interesting as always! I was wondering if you have read "Spoken Here" by Mark Abley? It's about endangered languages and from what you said in this video, I think you'd probably enjoy it!

[@LindsayDowLanguages]

Thank you! :) I have, yes. I bought it in a second hand book shop in Montreal (when I was there for LangFest! Ha!) and loved it! :)

[@maelysmay1406]

Lindsay Williams ahh nice! How fitting haha :D

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@chrisy2652]

Happy New year for Lindsay from Christoph
Glücklich Neuejahre für Lindsay aus Christoph
Buon Nuovoanno per Lindsay di Christofo
Szczęśliwego nowego roku dla Lindsay od Krzysztofa

[@aaliyahetc.6687]

First.
Sorry I felt proud lol