COLOMBIA SPANISH

PRESERVE THE NATIVE LANGUAGE

CORPORATION UNIVERSITY OF CARIBEAN

BY:

LILIAN DEL CARMEN RAMÍREZ RIVAS

SEMESTER: 4

PROGRAM:

DEGREE IN ENGLISH

SUBJECT:

LINGUISTICS

TEACHER:

LADY JOHANA GOMEZ

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¿How could we preserve the native languages in Colombia and their use?

First, Colombia always preserve the spanish language as they responsible for our
development of the culture and our community, Thanks to the preservation it helps to protect
our tradition and heritage of our colombian people. In the other hand the Spanish
preservation ensures contact with ones history and literature.

Second; Spanish is the majority language in Colombia with 99,5%, As well as English
language have status in San Andres and Santa Catalina Islands. Also 65 Amerindian
languages,2 Creole languages, Portuguese and Romani are spoken in the farthest indigenous
communities.
¿Which is the Amerindian languages in Colombia?
The Amerindian languages are grouped into 12 language families are:
Arawakan
Cariban
Tupian
Quebchuan
Third, the 2 creole languages of San Andres are:
Creole English and Palenquero
Experts affirm there around 60 indigenous languages in Colombia and more than 750,00
colombians speak them, Many of these tongues come from well-established indigenous
lineages.
I`m going to tell about the indigenous languages with their departments in Colombia
Such as:

Indigenous Languages Departments

Arawakan language Guajira
Barbacoan language Nariño and Cauca
Witoto Language Putumayo
Caribean language Amazon, Guaviare,Cesar
Chibchan language Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Emberan and Wounan language Choco, Valley of the Cauca
Guajiboan language Orinoco River
Macro-Puinevan language Vaupés and Guaviare
Quechuan language Amazon
Tucanoan language Amazon

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For many years the indigenous languages were not recognised as bilingual at
university, In the other words the universities prefer their students to have a second
european language such as English,French,German, the rest of the cholos taught their
curriculum in Spanish.

Actually indigenous people have also been displaced from the community and others
move into biggest cities in search of opportunities, They began to study Spanish
language some because its necesary and people they saw it as the best way to
progress
Finally Colombia is the richest country in Cultural diversity and multilinguism and
dialects and specially is the second country of America most recognised for your flora
and fauna.
For finnish the topic we will take a look at the regional dialects of Colombia

Paisa dialect – spoken in Medellín and coffee regions

Rolo (Cachao) dialect – Spoken in the city of Bogota
Cundiboyacense dialect – spoken mainly in Boyacá and Cundinamarca
Caribbean (costeño) dialect – spoken in the Caribbean region of Colombia
Valluno (español vallecaucano) dialect – spoken in the city valley of the Cauca
River, and the central and western cordilleras
Andean dialect – spoken mainly in Caldas and Antioquia
Opita dialect – mostly spoken in the southern in Magdalena River Valley
Santanderean dialect – spoken mostly in the northeastern part of Colombia
(bordering with Venezuela)
Eastern Plains (Llanero) dialect – spoken from the colombian- venezuelan plains.
Chocó (Pacific) dialect – this dialect extends in the Pacific Coast beyond the
Department of Chocó. Because Its reflects African descent in terms of rhythm and
intonation.
Island dialect - is spoken in Providencia and the Islands of San Andreas in special
Santa Catalina.

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¿Do you think Spanish could disappear soon?

Really, I don`t think Spanish could disappear soon because Spanish it is the world`s
second language most spoken native after Mandarin, and the world`s fourth -most
spoken language overall after English, Chinese, hindi as well as the world`s widely
spoken romance language.
Second, The Spanish language have 534 million speakers in the world, Thank to
Cristobal Columbus who travel to America to cultivate european culture and
multilinguism on october 12 ,1492.
In the other hand, the last country in Asia speak Spanish is Filipinas which was
colonized by Miguel Lopez Lepazpi and Easter Islands (Oceania) was colonized by
Felipe González Ahedo .
To give details I present the Spanish preservation through a comparative chart
AMERICA EUROPE ASIA AFRICA OCEANIA
Argentina Andorra Filipinas Equatorial Easter
Bolivia Spain Guinea Islands
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican
Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Spain
Uruguay
Venezuela

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If we don`t preserve our Spanish language,futures generations lose a vital part of the
history that is necessary to complete understand it. As well as this makes language
aspecto of cultural heritage, and its becomes especially important to preserve it.But
actually 96% of the languages we know more or les at risk.

Bibliography
https://www.getblend.com/blog/languages-of-colombia/
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenguas_de_Colombia
https://www.colombia.co/en/colombia-country/colombia-facts/counting-colombias-
languages/
https://reliefweb.int/map/colombia/translators-without-borders-non-spanish-languages-
colombia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Colombia
https://reliefweb.int/map/colombia/translators-without-borders-non-spanish-languages-
colombia

https://www.shaalaa.com/question-bank-solutions/do-you-think-it-is-
important-to-preserve-languages-writing-skill_143324

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_preservation#:~:text=When%20a%20language
%20dies%20out,especially%20important%20to%20preserve%20it.&text=But
%2096%20percent%20of%20the,more%20or%20less%20at%20risk.

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