The Academy of the Mixtec Language ( mix, Ve'e Tu'un Sávi, meaning "House of the Language of the Rain"; es, Academia de la Lengua Mixteca) was founded in 1997 by a group of indigenous activists from the

Mixtec people The Mixtecs (), or Mixtecos, are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec Culture w ...

, 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 Tlaxiaco is a city, and its surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is located in the Tlaxiaco District in the south of the Mixteca Region, with a population of about 17,450. The city is formally known as Her ...

, in the heart of the Mixteca region of the

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Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

. 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

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, and other parts of the world. One such organization, the

Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales The Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations ( es, Frente Indígena Organizacionales Binacionales, FIOB), formerly known as the Binational Front of Mixteco-Zapotec ( es, Frente Mixteco-Zapoteco Binacional), emerged at the end of 1991 in Los An ...

(FIOB) has a radio station that broadcasts in Mixtec in the U.S. state of

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Orthographies for indigenous languages of Mexico
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La Casa de la Lengua de la Lluvia: Esfuerzos por lograr que el idioma mixteco pueda escribirse
Indigenous languages of Mexico

Mixtec The Mixtecs (), or Mixtecos, are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec Culture wa ...

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