New Map Shows The Diversity Of Indigenous Languages Spoken Across Los Angeles BY Justin Lessner | July 19, 2021 AT 5:54 pm wearemitu By Justin Lessner July 19, 2021 at 5:54 pm CIELO Los Angeles may be located on unceded Tonvga lands but the city is home to dozens of other Indigenous languages with origins from across Mexico and Latin America. All too often Indigeneity is erased in the im/migrant narrative of the United States, including in Los Angeles. Thanks to a recent partnership between UCLA and CIELO, a local organization whose Spanish acronym stands for Indigenous Communities in Leadership, we now have clearer data on just which native languages are spoken across Southern California.