This printed edition corresponds to the first volume of the collection "The Times of our language". This is the first publication of its kind that summarizes a concrete explanation of the linguistic structure of the ngiba of Santa Inés Ahuatempan. All volumes of this collection are made from, by, and for the Ngiba community.

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The first volume, and the collection in general, are the product of three-year research that the artist Ulises Matamoros Ascención has done in collaboration with Ngiba speakers of Santa Inés Ahuatempan, through meetings and assemblies held in "Chasen Thajni: everyone’s home", a community space made up of members of the Ngiba community. To gather this knowledge would be impossible if it did not arise from within the same community and from the restlessness of the rescue of the language. 

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​"Chasen Thajni: everyone’s House" was built thanks to the sixth edition of the BBVA-MACG program. The research, meetings, and community discussion assemblies that have made these volumes possible were subsidized by the sponsorship program for artistic research of the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation 2020, and by PECDA 2019. The edition and first print run for this first volume were subsidized by the sponsorship program for artistic research of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo 2022; the Program of Stimuli to the creation and artistic development of the state of Puebla, and Chasen Thajni.

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​All the information contained here comes from various notebooks and audio and video recordings that the artist collected at community meetings held in "Chasen Thajni: everyone´s House". This information was reviewed, compared, discussed, and corrected also in community sessions, and personal visits to neighbors of San Antonio Tierra Negra and Tierra Colorada.

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As an auxiliary tool, the collection "the times of our language" has a digital platform