Language Activism by Haley De Korne

Author:Haley De Korne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2021-06-23T11:26:46.699000+00:00

5.2.1

Representing legitimate languages and multilingual identities

Due to its location in the center of Tehuantepec, a town at the crossroads of multiple Indigenous language communities, the Faculty of Languages has always had students who are speakers of Indigenous languages, especially Zapotec. Ximena Léon Fernández recounted that when she began as a student in the Bachelor’s program in 2010 the presence of Zapotec speakers was common, but it was not considered “relevant” for the activities of the Faculty.

Ximena  Nunca fue algo relevante en la facultad, ¿no? Ya que la licenciatura era una licenciatura en lengua extranjera con especialidad en inglés, nunca fue relevante que tuviéramos, como siempre he habido, alumnos que hablaran zapoteco.

 It was never something relevant in the Faculty, right? Since the Bachelor’s was a Bachelor’s in foreign languages with specialization in English, it was never relevant that we had, as there has always been, students who speak Zapotec.

(Interview July 2014)

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