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Indigenous languages are valuable to distinguish territorial identity because a people’s culture and place of origin can be related through them. The purpose of this paper is to present the geography of the Ngigua language as a valued cultural footprint for biodiversity. The Ngigua language, originally from the Valley of Tehuacan in central Mexico, represents an opportunity to explore language as a tool for cultural conservation and analyze the linguistic peculiarities of a tonal language.