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The language the 15-year-old needed an interpreter to wrestle with — for the sake of his future — was an ancient Mayan one called Q’anjob’al, or Kanjobal.

Today, Mam and other Mayan languages are expanding their reach, as indigenous people from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are spreading them in the US through immigration.

As immigration to the U.S. shifts from Mexico to Central America, more Mayan speakers find themselves stuck without translators in the court system.

Tourists are pouring into the Yucatán Peninsula for the end of the Mayan calendar.

About 7,500 Mayan-language speakers live in the Dallas area. “They have a hard time adapting to society. It is difficult for them.

Archaeologists exploring the deep jungles of Mexico uncovered the remains of an ancient Mayan city that experts never knew had existed.

"Baktun" will air this month in Mexico in the native language and with a plot that mirrors Mayan culture.

A map of the many Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala. As Central Americans become the largest group of new arrivals to the U.S., the language of immigration is changing.