El proyecto de revitalización; mantenimiento y desarrollo lingüístico y cultural: resultados y desafíos

Abstract

The Project on revitalization; maintenance; language and cultural development (prmlcd) has generated a revitalization corpus in about a dozen languages or language varieties with the active collaboration of native speakers; including illustrators; linguists; and disseminators of the materials. In addition; the development of a methodology for language (re)vitalization has been positive in terms of the production and dissemination of useful materials for the reversal of the processes of linguistic and cultural shift. As a result; the PRMLCD has successfully placed about half a million copies of these items in the classroom libraries of the SEP (Secretaría de Educación Pública; The Mexican Ministry of Education) to promote indigenous languages (Nahuatl; Maya and Mixtec) and has offered workshops on language revitalization on an informal recreational approach based on audio-visual means to impact positively the use of threatened languages and cultures.