Texts about languages in Latin America

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Texts about languages in Latin America

Enough with keeping the Maya locked in their pyramids!
by Valentina Vapnarsky

Account from a field linguist in Amazonia
by Elsa Gomez-Imbert

Guarani monolingual resistance in Paraguay
by Christine Pic-Gillard

A bilingual Guarani/Portuguese school experience, Brazil
by Andréa Eichenberg

When speakers are missing… The zápara school in Ecuador
by Anne-Gaël Bilhaut

How to teach a mother tongue… when it no longer is a mother tongue?
by Colette Grinevald and Bénédicte Pivot

Mother-tongue based education in French Overseas Communities
by Michel Launey

Papiamentu, healthy Creole
by Bart Jacobs

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