«No Hay Nada Más Político Que Una Lengua Porque Construye Lo Común»
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
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At that time, when I didn’t know much Spanish, but I was trying to learn, I once wrote I am hungry to talk. What I wanted to say was I am afraid to talk. But the truth is that the issue of language also had to do with hunger. It had to do with desire, with the desire for what is most fundamental in life—apart from water, food, air—which, in my
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