Indigenous Languages of Mexico: Rescued, Alive, and Facing Challenges in Cyberspace (fwd link)

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Subject: [ILAT] Indigenous Languages of Mexico: Rescued, Alive, and Facing
Challenges in Cyberspace (fwd link)


Monday, October 1, 2012

Indigenous Languages of Mexico: Rescued, Alive, and Facing Challenges in
Cyberspace

Año Nuevo Seri
All Rights Reserved © 2012 Memo Vasquez 

Mexico City. -  The diverse indigenous languages of Mexico have been kept
alive for generations through oral tradition are now confronted by the
challenges created at being rescued and preserved alive in cyberspace - a
loss of identity or of being deviated and thus relegated into mere jargon or
slang.

The internet - unlike television or the printed press - is an attractive
form of media for indigenous persons.

"It provides the means to create a sense of identity and can become a voice
for one's culture," says Efe Carmen Gomez, a researcher of the appropriation
of technology by indigenous communities.

After more than ten years of researching the relationship between emerging
technologies and native peoples of Mexico, Gomez recalls that the first
websites to be developed in indigenous communities were created to provide
them with a sense of "identity".

Access full article below: 
http://nativevox.blogspot.com/2012/10/indigenous-languages-of-mexico-rescued
.html?spref=tw

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