Los soportes multimedia en la revitalización lingüística: una experiencia

In this contribution, we'll briefly review the synergistic relation between different types of media (e.g. digital) in contemporary contexts as strategies to strengthen native languages, a project that the Acervo Digital de Lenguas Indígenas (ADLI-CIESAS) has developed for over two decades, promoting reading and oral expression in native languages via a multimedia and multimodal approach, resulting in more effective and affective forms of revitalization, maintenance and linguistic and cultural development. Over the years, the project has developed and continues to develop successful revitalization paths in an ever-threatening language context, a bastion of this being the collaborative work with intercultural groups of researchers, activists, artists and educators, among others, in diverse regions in Mexico. These include the Maya region in the Yucatan Peninsula, more recently the Baja California Peninsula, with Yuman languages, such as Pai Pai and Kumiay, and even North American languages -e.g. Fox, Ojibwe-, the Nahuas of different regions and Mixtecs of Oaxaca and Guerrero, Huave of Oaxaca, Hñahñu of Hidalgo, and others niches of opportunity in these and other indigenous enclaves, together with developing language revalorization work for mainstream society.