The Pesh Language 
Pesh (also known as Pech, Paya, Pesh Ñaha) is spoken by the Pesh indigenous people of northern Honduras. Pesh, along with Rama, is part of the Chibchan language family. There are less than 503 speakers of Pesh and they are mostly located in several communities along the upper Honduras departments of Colon, Olancho and Gracias a Dios

The Pesh speak their language amongst themselves but face external pressures to rely on Spanish in interactions outside the community. Their language is inextricably tied to the land on which they live. This Living Dictionary is part of the work made by the Language Activist Alex Manuel Martinez Aguilera efforts to provide useful resources to the community.

Overview of the Project
Since 2020, The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages Activist Alex Manuel Martinez Aguilera has worked closely with Ángel Simeón Martinez Torres. He is an indigenous Pesh leader who is fully engaged in language revitalization efforts. He has published books, that contain descriptions of myths, tales, and grammar with occasional Spanish translations complementing his native tongue.

Initial Recordings in 2020
The first set of Pesh words recorded in this Living Dictionary came from an effort made by the native community for preserve and avoid extintion of the language. Essentially, Alex Manuel Martinez Aguilera send at least 30 words for the Native Community using gmail or WhatsApp. After, the native speakers send the recordings and transcriptions of the words sent at the last day. Finally, the process is repeated. How is expected the Pesh Language is severely endangered and therefore the process is made all the days of the year since the documentation process started in February 2020. This electronic dictionary is updated with the standardized orthography.

Further Reading

Ramon Hernández Torres (Book, 2009). "Gramatica Pesh" (PDF). Secretaría de Educación de Honduras.

Juana Carolina Hernández Torres (Book, 2019) "Wichã Akaki" (PDF). Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos

Ángel Simeón Martínez Torrez (Book, 2019) "Manihri u’ri" (PDF). Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos

Juana Carolina Hernández Torres (Book, 2019) "Wa sonkwa" (PDF). Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos

Ángel Simeón Martínez Torrez (Book, 2019) "Takaskro" (PDF). Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos

This documents were made by previously projects related with the Pesh Language such as the recopilation of the Pesh Grammar for the Honduran Linguistics Ramon Hernández or the tales projects made by the French Linguistics Claudine Chamoreau

Further Reading (Own)

Alex Manuel Martínez Aguilera (Book, 2021) "Tasma Kawesh Arirawá" (PDF). Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán 

Instagram Account

Language, Pesh (@peshlanguage). 2021. "link"

The idea of the Instagram Account is provide to the people public information of the language and academic videos recorded in the language beyond of a simple documentation. The idea is in process...

YouTube Account

Home [Pesh Achũĩshpra]. Retrieved from "Link"

Researching Documents

Claudine Chamoreau (Article, 2019) "Headless Relative Clauses in Pesh" (PDF). Oxford University Press.

Claudine Chamoreau (Article, 2019) "Restrictive Relative Constructions in Pesh" 

Claudine Chamoreau (Chapter, 2019) "Morphological Split Ergative Alignment and Syntactic Nominative–Accusative Alignment in Pesh" International journal of American linguistics

Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco (Book, 2020) "Kaya Pesh: Relatos de la Tradición Oral Pesh" Universidad de Bergen

Dennis Graham Holt (Book, 1999) "Pech (Paya)" 

I suggest that you use this books just if you are a Linguist, Language Activist or Languages Student