Robust language communities, such as the K’iche’ and the Q’eqchi', have certainly benefitted from government literacy initiatives, but even endangered communities, such as the Ch’orti’, have seen improvements in literacy. The Maya have succeeded in changing Guatemalan language policy and statutory law during the past generation, and key legal changes and policy decisions, which seemed perhaps insufficient at first, have resulted in increased literacy, including multimodal literacy, throughout the Mayan areas of Guatemala. Reviewing the history of Mayan literacy, we focus on several important changes which have been facilitated by an invigorated spirit of pan-Mayanism since the mid-1980s. The Maya are not dead, and their languages continue to be used.
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