The General Direction of Bilingual Intercultural Education of the Education Department of Peru has made official 24 native languages alphabets on critically endangered this week, mostly of them from Amazon rainforest, what means that the 26 language rules are available, included quechua and aimara, which were made official in 1985.
The objective of the Government of Peru Is to make official the 47 natives languages by 2017.
The official alphabets, which will be of mandatory use at all public entities, correspond to harakbut, ese eja, yine, kakataibo, matsigenka, jaqaru, nomatsigenga, yanesha, cashinahua, wampis, secoya, sharanahua, murui-muinani, kandozi-chapra, kakinte, matsés, ikitu, shiwilu, madija y kukama kukamiria. Moreover, the alphabets asháninka, awajún, shawi, and the shipibo-konibo were also officialised.
However, many other languages have been extinguished due to the lack of a specific policy of conservation, and this process has been accelerated during the last years as a result of the effect of technologies, according to the Government of Peru.
In Peru, there are around 10 languages which are spoken by between 20 and 200 speakers, another one that is spoken by 1.5000, while the language with the most speaker is asháninka, with about 400.000 of speakers.
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The objective of the Government of Peru Is to make official the 47 natives languages by 2017.
The official alphabets, which will be of mandatory use at all public entities, correspond to harakbut, ese eja, yine, kakataibo, matsigenka, jaqaru, nomatsigenga, yanesha, cashinahua, wampis, secoya, sharanahua, murui-muinani, kandozi-chapra, kakinte, matsés, ikitu, shiwilu, madija y kukama kukamiria. Moreover, the alphabets asháninka, awajún, shawi, and the shipibo-konibo were also officialised.
However, many other languages have been extinguished due to the lack of a specific policy of conservation, and this process has been accelerated during the last years as a result of the effect of technologies, according to the Government of Peru.
In Peru, there are around 10 languages which are spoken by between 20 and 200 speakers, another one that is spoken by 1.5000, while the language with the most speaker is asháninka, with about 400.000 of speakers.
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