Indigenous languages added to new Ecuadorian constitution (fwd link)

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Indigenous languages added to new Ecuadorian constitution

Posted: August 22, 2008
by: Rick Kearns / Indian Country Today

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador could soon become the fourth country in the Western
Hemisphere to have indigenous languages included in the list of the nation's
official languages.

In late July, the National Constituent Assembly - the political entity that is
writing what could become the country's new constitution - decided to include
Quechua and Shuar, along with Spanish, as official languages. The proposed
constitution will be put to a national vote Sept. 28.

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