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Professor’s project provides first-ever Guatemalan language text for
Mayan students

Posted March 31, 2011 at 3:50 pm · By ASU News
USA

BOONE—Imagine you’re a middle school student studying civics or local
government, and instead of reading a textbook written in your native
language, you must read the material in another.

Timothy J. Smith, an assistant professor in Appalachian State
University’s Department of Anthropology, has led a project to publish
the first social science text written in a Guatemalan Mayan language.
It will be distributed in May to Mayan authorities and leaders who
participated in the project to create the text, as well as school
officials, teachers and students in Sololá, Guatemala.

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