This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in
two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social …

How do children and adults become multilingual? How do they use their languages? What
influence does being multilingual have on their identities? What is the social impact of …

Inadequate attention paid to understanding the complex relations between personal drives
and situated social constraints means affect remains the least understood of language …

Quechua is a threatened language (Dorian, 1998: 4). Yet with 8 to 12 million speakers
(Grinevald, 1998: 128), most of them concentrated in the Andean highlands of Peru, Bolivia …

T his chapter offers a comparative examination of the situation of the Quechua language in
Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the present day, taking into account the historical processes …

Due to social and geographical mobility and globalization, many minority languages in the
world are pushed to the periphery. Reasons for such a trend differ among languages. In the …

This chapter examines Indigenous language practices using digital media and technology to
promote Indigenous language revitalization. It follows the growing online presence of Latin …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of terminologies that address the complex
interplay of languages and cultures in globalized spaces. This increased attention is …

The world's 300 mill ion Indigenous people s reside in 70 countries and every conti nent on
earth. Identi fi ed as Indigenous according to international conve ntion because of thei r …

Many languages in today's world are endangered. One of these languages is Quechua,
which has received considerable attention in recent decades from linguists, language …