UAlbany’s Anthropology Department and Institute for Mesoamerican Studies has built an online dictionary of some 1,500 Copala Triqui words in hopes of preserving the language as more and more of its native speakers leave their homelands in the mountains of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

The dictionary project, which was unveiled this weekend during a Triqui cultural celebration on the university’s campus, is aimed specifically at successive generations of Triqui immigrants.