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Lenguas indígenas en el Paraguay y políticas linguísticas

Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The paper is about Indigenous people in Paraguay, their language and language policies used both by Guarani people and other social actors who play with them and historically help them in their fights, as well as governmental instances. It discusses bilingual practices and its effects among different Indigenous peoples living in the country, as well as Indigenous written languages enabled in different experiences of Indigenous schooling, highlighting data showing nuances for this reality in regions like the Paraguayan Chaco. It is based on the assumption that Guarani language is one the most traditional literary languages in South America, so that early writings date from the 17th century. It also shows the varieties of Guarani language, finding out that this variety is part of the Guarani self-conscience, self-recognition their way to be different in speaking
Language: Spanish
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2740834605
FWCI: 1.527
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