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Caracas - A meeting on Cross-cultural
Bilingual Education and Linguistic Rights
will be held on Thursday in this capital,
attended by Venezuelan teachers of the
indigenous Karina, Yekuana, Pemon, Piapoco,
Sanema, Jivi, Enapa, Wotuja, and Warao
people. The meeting will develop at the
Cultural Diversity House in Bolivar City to
discuss proposals related to the role of
education in preserving languages.
The participants will also tackle
preservation of languages in danger of
extinction, and will analyze Venezuelan
legal regulations, regarding original
cultural diversity, like the Indigenous
People and Community Organic Law and the
Indigenous Language Organic Law.
Those regulations establish that although
the Spanish language is official, the
original languages are also of official use
for all people and should be respected all
over the Venezuelan territory, because they
are national and world cultural heritage.
The indigenous people have the right to keep
and develop their ethnic and cultural
identity, view of the world, values,
spirituality and their sacred places, they
ratified.
Both texts say that they can have their own
education and an instruction regime of
cross-cultural and bilingual nature,
regarding their sociocultual peculiarities,
values and traditions.
Education Vice-minister Edgar Leon told
Prensa Latina recently that the government
is elaborating different teaching programs
for the Sanema, Warao, Ye Kwana, Karina,
Pemon, Yupka and Wayuu ethnic communities in
the Amazonas, Bolivar, Sucre, Anzoategui,
Zulia and Monagas states.
Besides the teachers, indigenous community
leaders will participate in the meeting, and
they will be able to contribute reflections
on the linguistic heritage and the rights
inherent to the use of original languages,
either in schools, urban spaces, the family
or the media.
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