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Lecture Series. "Siminchikta rimachkanchikraqmi, ayui atuana’ama’a atu’ani. Recent progress and old challenges on linguistic rights of the indigenous peoples in Peru, from a State point of view"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Location
101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St, Champaign, IL 61820
Date
Nov 4, 2019   3:00 pm  
Speaker
Agustín Panizo Jansana, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Contact
Kasia Szremski
E-Mail
szremski@illinois.edu
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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

"Siminchikta rimachkanchikraqmi, ayui atuana’ama’a atu’ani. Recent progress and old challenges on linguistic rights of the indigenous peoples in Peru, from a State point of view"

ABSTRACT: With its 48 identified indigenous languages –spoken by nearly 4.5 million people– Peru is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in Latin America. After a long colonial and republican history of downsizing indigenoues languages and some failed attempts to implement linguistic policies to promote its use, the recent international context has opened a new era where this issue is gaining momentum within official debates, due to a more favorable context towards indigenous peoples and their rights.

In this discussion, Mr. Agustín Panizo will cover the recent progress, strategies and biggest challenges Peru is now facing with the goal of preserving its linguistic diversity and overcoming the social exclusion of all who speak indigenous languages. One main idea of this dissertation is that thinking the implementation of language policies from a rights aproach allows to focus on the priorization of the actions of the State in the attendance of realities that represent both extremes of a continuum between the most and the less spoken indigenous languages, like quechua and iñapari, for instance, the two languages used in the title of this presentation.

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