With a mischievous gleam in his eye, he says that in the local Mam Mayan language, it refers to old mules on their last journey.
Now La Voz Popular has evolved into Mujb'ab'l yol, whose name means "Meeting place of expression" in the Mam Maya language.
One of my clients and her son, who had traveled here from Guatemala, took great pleasure in teaching me words in their indigenous language, Mam.
In another case, a man whose primary language is Mam was unable to explain that his family had been killed in his Guatemalan town, which could be a basis for asylum, his lawyer said.
Doña A – not her real name, for security reasons – was standing up, arms crossed, lightly leaning against a ladder, and speaking in her language, Maya Mam, while a friend, a relation by marriage, translated into Spanish.
The local language is Mam, and wood is the primary cooking and heating fuel.
The Mamean languages are Mam, Teco (Tektiteko), Awakateko, and Ixil.
The name Zaculeu means "white earth" in the Mam, K'iche' and Q'anjob'al languages, from saq (adj) meaning "white" and ulew (n) meaning "earth".
Workers coming from the highlands of southern Mexico and Guatemala speak dozens of languages, including Zapotecan, Mam, Kanjobal, Tzotzil, and Mixteca, and often cannot communicate with each other.
