2023-04-24 15:55:56
Yásnaya Aguilar is a defender of linguistic diversity / Photo: EFE
Mexican, indigenous, and Mixe-speaking linguist Yásnaya Aguilar is a staunch defender of diversity, which, she says, is being undervalued, something that could cause “half of the languages spoken in the world to die in this century.”
In an interview with EFE in Madrid, where she presented her book “Manifestos on Linguistic Diversity”, the Mexican shows her concern about the state of the world’s languages that are facing a massive death.
“I come from a linguistically diverse country, like many countries, and my mother tongue is different from the common one. Over time, he realized “how important linguistic diversity is for building a just world.”
A need
“It is basic for fair relations between peoples and culture, for the construction of peace, you cannot fight for democracy if you do not consider linguistic diversity.”
Aguilar believes that “if politics is the art of life in common, all that is traversed by the language.”
“If you do not realize that oppression (by language) it is that you speak a majority language, for me it is a political issue from its birth.” she affirms.
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