Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Quechua and Aymara THE ENDANGERED
UNESCO placed the Quechua and Aymara languages \u200b\u200bin your list endangered
However highlights the policies that have led to an increase of speakers of these languages \u200b\u200b
The Quechua and Aymara languages \u200b\u200bthat are part of everyday life in our major tourist destinations (Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca, for example) are contained in 2.500 Atlas of endangered languages \u200b\u200bin the world of the existing 6.000. This list was drawn up by UNESCO, an organization that has launched yesterday an electronic version of the atlas in the city of Paris.
This atlas is an interactive digital tool. Contains updated data on endangered languages \u200b\u200band may be supplemented, corrected or updated constantly by the contributions of its users. Other options you have is that you can search by multiple criteria and classify endangered languages \u200b\u200bas different levels of vitality: vulnerable, endangered, seriously endangered, critically endangered and extinct (since 1950).
Although the organization said that there are favorable language policies have done to increase the number of speakers of those languages, there are still disturbing information. Of the 6,000 languages \u200b\u200bthat exist in the world, more than 200 have become extinct in the last three generations, 538 are in critical condition, 502 seriously endangered, 632 endangered and 607 vulnerable.
The atlas also shows that 199 languages \u200b\u200bhave fewer than 10 speakers and 178 more have a number of speakers between 10 and 50.
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JUAN CARLOS VICTORIA
ECOTOURISM SPECIALIST
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juamy2@hotmail.com
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