Call for Proposals for the Special Issue on Endangered Languages and Varieties in the Americas
Guest Editors
Marleen Haboud Buchamar
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Ecuador
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5382
Ana Isabel García Tesoro
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5382
Silke Jansen
Universidad de Erlangen-Núremberg, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5382
The Americas are characterized by a widely language and cultural diversity. Only Latin America has around 42 million people belonging to Indigenous peoples, who speak about 560 aboriginal languages. However, one of each Indigenous groups have lost their mother tongue in the last few decades (Unesco, 2021), up to this day, when 60% of their languages are endangered and risk disappearing. Likewise, the United States and Canada are characterized by a high degree of language assimilation, which can be explained for the most part on English-language cultural dominance.