Name: The Word Tree. Revitalizing Indigenous Languages in Abya Yala (en Inglés)
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Author: Adela Pineda-Franco;Tanya Huntington;Socorro Venegas
ISBN: 9781477331996

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The Word Tree. Revitalizing Indigenous Languages in Abya Yala (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Texas Press

Autor

Adela Pineda-Franco;Tanya Huntington;Socorro Venegas

Año

2025

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

144

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3x12.7 cm

ISBN13

9781477331996

The Word Tree. Revitalizing Indigenous Languages in Abya Yala (en Inglés)

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A collaborative effort to address some of the chronic issues affecting the preservation and revitalization of indigenous languages. What does it mean to "revitalize" an indigenous language when approximately 6,700 of the nearly 7,000 left in the world need protection? Where to begin? Each language offers a sense of history, identity, and belonging within society to the people actively using it. The Word Tree begins by hearing directly from those still communicating in some of these less dominant languages, from Achi'es to Zapotec, and offers the metaphor of a tree whose political roots sustain the trunk of education that will bear the fruit of learning languages anew. Whether describing the tension between indigenous and state-recognized languages; the process of linguistics displacement resulting from migration; or the value of locally focused efforts in a cultural cooperative, these nine essays offer fresh and useful perspectives. The Word Tree is the result of a collaboration between the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Texas at Austin. Gathering diverse concerns, experiences, explorations, proposals, and perspectives on the revitalization of some of the continent's most imperiled indigenous languages, the contributors aim to introduce their struggle for existence to a modern world. From south to north, the Quecha or Runasimi, Maya, Zapotec or Diidxaza, Chatino, Mephaa or Tlapaneco, Miteco, Mixe or Auukj, and Nahuatl languages exist in all their vast complexities and contexts. At its most fundamental level, this book is a call to develop alternative paths for human existence in which caring for one another is the consensus.