Lengua y educación frente a la pervivencia de las culturas nativas de America Latina

Short Description: Stoińska-Kairska’s article focuses on the problem of language in relation to persistence of native cultures in Latin Americas. She sets up a typology based on the use of language. It includes societies that use in their original language in daily life and pass it on to new generations, societies that use native language but where younger generations are abandoning it, and the societies which do not use their native language. The article analyses the role of language in the process of disintegration of indigenous cultures. As a conclusion, she presents several notions of how to counter this negative phenomenon.The article contains an annex - a list of indigenous languages used in Latin America.