Guest editors:
Harry C. Denny (Purdue University, USA)
Ghada Gherwash (Colby College, USA)
Hadi R. Banat (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
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Last February 22, Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura was invited to speak about current debates on Policies and Practices for Global Multilingualism in the program Culturama, by UdeA radio station.
Listen to the program here.
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Guest Editors
Marleen Haboud Buchamar
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Ecuador
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6966-6375
Ana Isabel García Tesoro
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6392-0769
Silke Jansen
Universidad de Erlangen-Núremberg, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5382
The Americas are characterized by a widely language and cultural diversity. Only Latin America has around 42 million people belonging to Indigenous peoples, who speak about 560 aboriginal languages. However, one of each Indigenous groups have lost their mother tongue in the last few decades (Unesco, 2021), up to this day, when 60% of their languages are endangered and risk disappearing. Likewise, the United States and Canada are characterized by a high degree of language assimilation, which can be explained for the most part on English-language cultural dominance.
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