Indigenous languages thriving in Colombia (Al Jazeera 8/9)
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Al Jazeera: Indigenous people in Colombia embrace languages
Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2011
"More of Colombia's indigenous peoples are speaking their native languages than at in any time in recent memory.
Thanks to a two-decades old change in education policy that ended a prohibition on teaching Indian languages, indigenous communities have become increasingly confident about speaking their own languages.
Indigenous organisations estimate that 80 per cent of the country's 1.4 million Indians speak a native language - up from around 60 per cent three decades ago."
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Indigenous languages thriving in Colombia (Al Jazeera 8/9)
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