Status Jurídico-Constitucional de las Lenguas Indígenas en América Latina

Authors

  • César Cisternas Irarrázabal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/dl.v16i24.113058

Keywords:

indigenous languages, indigenous peoples, constitution, Latin America, state, sociology of language

Abstract

The constitution is the fundamental norm that rules the modern Nation-States.
Consequently, what it is stipulated in it gives an idea of the relevance that the incorporated
(or not incorporated) elements have to the State. The present research analyses the juridicalconstitutional
status of the indigenous languages in the countries of Latin America, from
the perspective of the sociology of language. The method chosen is the content analysis of
the constitutional articles referring to language and the nature of the Nation-State. It has
been found that only seven countries (mainly from the Andean region of Southern
America) have declared official the vernacular languages, which implies that a 60.5% of the
indigenous people from the subcontinent dwells in countries in which it has not been given
that character to their ancestral languages.

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Published

2015-07-24

How to Cite

Irarrázabal, C. C. (2015). Status Jurídico-Constitucional de las Lenguas Indígenas en América Latina. Diálogos Latinoamericanos, 16(24), 9. https://doi.org/10.7146/dl.v16i24.113058

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Vol. 16 No. 24 (2015)

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