Featured artist: Victoria García Moreno

To learn more about the artist and her work, we invite you to download the supplement.

Cover image: The threads that bind us together (2021)

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Featured artist: Daniel R. Blanco

Their work is a quest for reconciling non-binary queer identity with the natural world.

Cover image: Naufragio (2024)

Featured Artist: Guillermo Londoño

In his series "What the eye does not see", Londoño paints imagined landscapes that look like our
cultural landscape —his way to denounce the destruction of Nature at the hands of man

Featured artist: Harrison Tobón

His work uses different techniques to explore the representation of urban spaces.

Cover image: Paisajes hechos a mano (2016)

Artist: Diego Sierra Enciso

Sierra Enciso contrasts the present of places and objects and the past hidden within them.

Cover image: Poema azul caos (2012)

Featured artist: Gertrude Martin Laprade

The concepts of "habitability" and "the alive" have a constant presence on her paintings.

Cover image: Entrada al solar, oil on canvas, 90 x 45 cm, 2020.

Artist: Marcela Ramírez Aza

Her abstract paintings use form and color to express both the artist's internal subjectivity
and external reality. Cover image: Gracia 12 (mixed media, 30 x 15 cm, 2013)

Artist: María Morán

Her paintings are influenced by the landscapes of her childhood at the foot of the Galeras
volcano. Cover image: Sábila lejos del cerro (oil on canvas, 1.26 x 1.26 m, 1990)

Artist: Victoria Ortiz

Her engraving work features recurrent themes: women, birds, and the tropics.
Cover image: Exótico (woodcut, 2020)

Artist: Laura Osorio

Her recent work focuses on the interaction between light and darkness on the canvas.
Cover image: Interacción, (oil on canvas, 2015)

Artist: Yina Lopera

Lopera captures in her paintings what the Japanese call komorebi: sunlight filtering through
tree leaves. Cover image: Refugio (oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm)

Artist: Kindi Llatju

His works offers a glimpse of his natal Manoy, in the Amazon rainforest, by combining painting, drawing, and fiber arts, and using unconventional materials like horsehair and copper threads.

Artist: Óscar López Ospina

Awarded painter and sculptor. Cover image: Abstracción pura 1382 (El vuelo del color)
(oil on cardboard, 50 x 25 cm, 2020)

Artist: Pascual Ruiz

Accomplished master of painting, drawing, engraving, and sculpture.
Cover image: Del mariposeo a la introspección (oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2009)

Artist: Miguel Arosemena

A leading representative of the contemporary figuration movement through painting
and engraving. Cover image: Espíritu anarquista (oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm, 2018)

Artist: Tomás Gallego

Through his artworks, he conveys a sense of movement that is an ongoing experimentation.
Cover image: Floración (acrylic on canvas, 45 x 25 cm, 2018)

ISSN (online) : 2145-566X | ISSN (print) 0123-3432
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala

Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal which aims to provide an academic forum for informed and respectful debate on current topics dealing with language, linguistics, literature, translation, and language teaching-learning, among others. From its inception in 1996, Íkala has published articles in several languages, such as English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, aiming to include a multiplicity of voices and to unravel through them what Íkala, in its original Thule name means —“issues of the utmost importance”.

  • Format: On line
  • Periodicity: Every four months
  • Peer review: Double-blind
  • No APCs
  • Rejection rate: 92%
  • This journal provides open access
 

Authors talk about their articles

Intertextualidad para la competencia literaria: cuentos tradicionales en la educación básica primaria
The impact of a vision intervention on Translation and Interpretation students’ L2 motivation
TikTok/Flipgrid for Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study
Escritura de géneros textuales administrativos en el contexto académico y profesional
The editors of the special issue about audiovisual translation into English, Lydia Hayes and Jorge Díaz-Cintas, talk about changes in this industry
Walter Alarcón-Pereira y Sandra Rojas Molina sobre La comunidad embera chamí en la ciudad de Bogotá: una revisión de literatura desde la sociolingüística

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez sobre Los académicos alzan la voz: discursos de hegemonía y resistencia en la enseñanza del inglés en Colombia
Las editoras invitadas de la edición sobre Decolonialidad en la enseñanza del inglés en América Latina

Juan Pablo Pino-Posada y Valentina Jaramillo-Appleby sobre la Recepción creativa de obras literarias: un modelo de investigación-creación a partir de la cuentística de Alice Munro
Los gestores del programa "La investigación en la escuela y el docente investigador en Colombia" hablan sobre este dossier

Jacqueline García Botero sobre Aspectos psicosociales y condiciones educativas de docentes de lengua en formación durante el confinamiento por la pandemia de COVID-19
Editores invitados sobre el rol de la tecnología en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas en medio de la crisis generada por la pandemia de COVID-19

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Current Issue

Vol. 30 No. 3 (2025): Endangered Languages and Varieties in the Americas
View Vol. 30 No. 3 (2025): Endangered Languages and Varieties in the Americas

For minoritized languages speakers across the Americas, their mother tongue often represents much more than a mere communication tool —it can become an identity symbol, articulate social relations and bonds, convey wisdoms and traditions from one generation to another, structure thinking, and heal, among many other roles. Nevertheless, it is known that languages, as social representations, allow both empowering and subordinating, creating stereotypes and, often, determining individuals’ social status. This is why many endangered languages are linked to discrediting and stigmatization, stereotypes linked to marginalization and underdevelopment, invisibility or some perceived uselessness. This problematic is beautifully illustrated in artist Victoria García's photographic and pictoric series. We invite you to look at a sample of her work here.

Published: 2025-11-10

Full Issue

Editorial

  • Hilos de oro, fotografía con intervención

    Endangered Languages and Varieties in the Americas

    Ana Isabel García Tesoro, Marleen Haboud Bumachar, Silke Jansen
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.362523

Empirical Studies

  • The Yawalapíti (Aruak) of Alto Xingu: Their History and Sociolinguistic Status

    João Carlos Almeida
    |Abstract
    = 58 veces | PDF (PORTUGUÊS (BRASIL))
    = 24 veces| | EPUB (PORTUGUÊS (BRASIL))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.360066

  • Identity Recognition and Language Revitalization Trajectories in Intercultural Bilingual Education Teacher Education

    Frances Kvietok
    |Abstract
    = 126 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 65 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.360321

  • The Color of Value: English as an Index of Racialization on the Brazil-Guyana border

    Natália Barroncas da Fonseca, Pedro de Moraes Garcez
    1-19
    |Abstract
    = 89 veces | PDF (PORTUGUÊS (BRASIL))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.360063

  • Language Ideologies Among Kamënẗsá Biyá People in Sibundoy Valley (Colombia): Identity, Use, Transmission, Preservation

    Jaime Alejandro Barón Sotto, Adrián Múnera
    |Abstract
    = 91 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 48 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.360061

  • What Is Not Named, Does It Exist? Ethnolinguistic Visibility in the 2022 Census in Argentina

    Sofía De Mauro
    |Abstract
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.359921

  • Linguistic Weakening of Nasa-Yuwe in the Path Yu' Community (Cauca, Colombia)

    Cristian Mauricio Uribe Muñoz
    |Abstract
    = 50 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 14 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.360057

  • Lexical Availability Among Young Palenquero Creole Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Analysis

    Wendy Valdez Jiménez, Mirian Díaz Pérez, Juan Diego Pulgarín Rivera, Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo
    |Abstract
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.361079

  • Making Kichwa Salasaka Visible: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis

    Soledad Chango, Saywa Masaquiza Caizabanda, Christian Puma Ninacuri
    |Abstract
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.360067

Case Studies

Literature Reviews

Theoretical Articles

  • Rethinking Language Education: The Case for Multilinguality

    Rama Kant Agnihotri
    |Abstract
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356284

Book Reviews

  • Book review: Portuñhol ¿qué es? como se faz?

    Jesús A. Meza-Morales
    |Abstract
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    = 40 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.361101
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