Initiatives for revitalization of endangered languages in Southern Mexico

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https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v15i1.22586

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Indigenous languages, endangered languages, language revitalization, multilingual policies, Southern Mexico

Abstract

Mexico is a country with a broad linguistic and cultural diversity. Certainly this is due to their number of languages, their sociocultural groups, and their dialectal variation. All of these characteristics show certain degree of language shift. However, every language needs to begin taking different actions (at the political, institutional, methodological level) for reversing language shift. This article aims to show the development of the project Revitalization of Endangered Languages Projects in Southern Mexico, 2014. This project was proposed by the Office’s Language Policies Assistant Director, National Institute of Indigenous Languages (Mexico). Specifically, the scope in this article is to describe the background of this project and how the six local or communal sub-projects linked to it have started revitalizing endangered languages with high degree or a very high degree of vanishing, in Oaxaca and Chiapas , in Southern Mexico.

Author Biography

  • Lorena Córdova Hernández, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas. Mexico

    Correo: lcordova.cat@uabjo.mx, lorenacordova64@gmail.com

    Los grados académicos alcanzados son la Licenciatura en Antrpología Lingüística de la Facultad de Antropología, Universidad Veracruzana; la Maestría en Antropología Social y Doctorado en Antropología en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-CDMX, así como una especialidad en Políticas Culturales y Gestión Cultural en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa. Además, se cuenta con la Diplomatura en “Revitalización Lingüística y Cultural” —Universidad Indígena Intercultural (FONDO INDÍGENA), el Instituto de Investigación de Lingüística Aplicada de la Unidad de Investigación de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Perú) y el CIESAS, México—, así como con el Diplomado en “Gestión y Promoción de Derechos Culturales” del Observatorio de Políticas Culturales del Centro Cultural de la Cooperación Floreal Gorini y la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FSOC-UBA).

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2015-06-19

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015)

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Córdova Hernández, L. (2015). Initiatives for revitalization of endangered languages in Southern Mexico. Lengua Y Sociedad, 15(1), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v15i1.22586