In 1891 the United States established the San Manuel Reservation for the Serrano people where many of its last speakers lived.

Language teacher Pauline Murillo helped develop an interactive CD ROM for learning Serrano.

[10] In May 2013, Cal State San Bernardino announced it would offer Serrano language classes to its students.

University of California, Los Angeles provides a recording of a Serrano speaker reading a word list here.

Serrano is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.