Peru launches campaign to popularize and promote indigenous languages

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The Ministry of Culture of Peru; launched this Sunday a campaign for citizens to sharewords and phrases in indigenous languages, in order to highlight their importance and value.

“Let’s speak our languages. The echo of the peoples”, is the name of the campaign in which soccer players and other personalities invite citizens to start a reflective dialogue on the importance of preserving the original languages ​​to maintain their historical legacy in a campaign ;a that is part of the Week of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity.

This initiative, promoted by the Ministry of Culture, aims to strengthen the appreciation of Peru as a cultural diversity. as a culturally diverse state, and free of ethnic-racial discrimination.

Soccer players such as Aldo Corzo, Gerson Barreto, Xioczana Canales and Wendy Rivera participated in these initiatives in which Peruvians are encouraged to share words or expressions in one of the 48 indigenous languages ​​spoken in the country. , such as Quechua, Aymara, Asháninka or Awajún.

Within the activities organized in the Week of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, which runs from May 21 to 28, the event will be held. In Lima, a sample of films recorded in some of these languages: “Cinema in Original Languages”.

In addition, next Thursday, May 25, will present The National Children’s Choir of the Ministry of Culture, a musical group with a wide repertoire in the native languages ​​of Peru, which seeks to spread the linguistic richness ;&stica.

On May 14, the Peruvian Government celebrated the The additions of Quechua and Aymara, spoken by more than four million people in the country, in the Google translation tool.

But despite initiatives like these, indigenous languages ​​face a risk of extinction and, in the last four centuries, at least 35 languages ​​have disappeared.

Currently, 18 of these languages ​​are in serious danger of disappearing.