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Chile hosts workshop to preserve Latin America’s native
languages<http://www.santiagotimes.cl/culture/events/25569-chile-hosts-workshop-to-preserve-latin-americas-native-languages>
MONDAY, 07 JANUARY 2013 20:13
WRITTEN BY ELIZABETH TROVALL*Indigenous speakers from seven countries unite
to learn techniques for recording their native language.*



Monday marked the beginning of the week-long “Enduring
Voices<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>”
workshop aimed at preserving indigenous languages that are rapidly
disappearing. The initiative teaches representatives from these diminishing
cultures ways of recording their language and sharing it before it is lost
completely.

[image: enduring_voices]

Monday Enduring Voices handed out media kits to workshop participants to
bring home and record their own indigenous communities. (Photo by Elizabeth
Trovall / The Santiago Times)
Twelve indigenous representatives from Chile, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, El
Salvador, Paraguay and Bolivia will convene for five days at the Santiago
Library, where they will share their experiences as cultural minorities and
learn techniques for capturing their culture’s oral history and spoken
language. The twelve workshop participants received recording kits on
Monday to use throughout the workshop and are expected to continue
capturing their culture when they return to their respective communities.

Dr. Gregory Anderson, a linguist with National Geographic, will help
facilitate the workshop. He said the importance of preserving these
languages is multifold. One reason to preserve these languages is to
capture information that would otherwise be lost forever.

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