«No Hay Nada Más Político Que Una Lengua Porque Construye Lo Común»
In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem ... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
La relación entre lengua e identidad es intensamente personal. Dado que la lengua está íntimamente ligada a la identidad, a menudo se utiliza como guardián, y se avergüenza a los jóvenes latinos por estar “americanizados” o se considera que rechazan la cultura de origen
Linguistics, American University • El Idioma Provoca Una Crisis De Identidad en Los Hijos Y Nietos De Inmigrantes Latinos
Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose languages
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