The natural way for families to teach and learn their language.

See it. Hear it. Keep in the family.

Dillo, the Tuki Ruki armadillo, waving Three generations connected through a shared family voice

What is Tuki Ruki?

A private learning app built around your family’s voices.

Your family brings the language. Tuki Ruki turns it into simple moments of seeing, listening, and speaking.

A grandmother and Marcos recording their language together

Your family becomes the teacher.

Parents, grandparents, siblings, and trusted relatives share the words they know.

Yanushka with Marcos and her grandmother inside their private family language space

Your language gets its own space.

In multilingual homes, one language can crowd out another. Tuki Ruki gives yours a private place to be heard and passed on.

The next generation learns by listening.

Learners see an image, hear their family name it, and say it aloud.

Yanushka sees an apple, hears Marcos name it, and practices saying it aloud

Ask your family

Every question can become a family lesson.

Want to know how something is said in your family’s language? Ask your family. Their answer becomes a new word to hear, practice, and keep.

See something. Ask how your family says it. Learn it in their voice.

Yanushka asks Marcos and her grandmother how their family says the name of a bird

Our beginning

A father’s language. A living inheritance.

Tuki Ruki was born from a Maya father’s determination to pass his native language on to his children—so it would not end with him, but live on in their voices and expand the way they understand the world.

Read our story
Marcos, the Maya father whose wish to pass on his language inspired Tuki Ruki

How it works

A family teaches. A new generation learns.

1Yanushka, Marcos, and her grandmother connected through their family’s voice

Bring your family together.

Invite the people you trust to a private family circle.

2Marcos and a family member recording words in their language

Give the language your voice.

Family members name familiar images and everyday expressions.

3Yanushka seeing an image, hearing Marcos, and saying the word aloud

Listen. Recognize. Speak.

Learners hear their family, connect sound with meaning, and say it aloud.

Ready to begin?

Let your language live in their voices.

Bring your family together and begin passing it on—one image, one voice, one word at a time.

Create your family circle

Private. By invitation. Taught by your family.