Language Revitalization Processes and Prospects: Quichua in the Ecuadorian AndesThis work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages. |
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academic activities adults authentic Quichua Belote bilingual education Chapter CIOIS clothing community members CONAIE concerning contexts cultural diglossia Directorate discussed domains Dorian economic Ecuador Ecuadorian elders Endangered Languages ethnic identity ethnography of communication example Fishman Furthermore grade hablar Hornberger Huayna Capac Huayna Capac school important indígenas indigenous identity indigenous languages instance instruction of Quichua interaction Intercultural Lagunas and Tambopamba Lagunas members Lagunas parent language death language loss language maintenance language planning language revitalization efforts learning linguistic Meänkieli mestizo mingas non-indigenous Northern Arizona University noted older organization participants patterns political practice programs Quichua instruction Quichua language region residents reversing language shift Rosa Saraguro communities second language acquisition Shuar social sociolinguistic Spanish speak Quichua speakers speech community status Tambopamba members Tambopamba parent Tape teachers teaching tend threatened language tion town of Saraguro town whites traditional Unified Quichua vocabulary younger