NEW: An unmissable interview with @DPuttnam.
One of the greatest film-makers we've ever had is telling us we are "sleepwalking into a disaster".
"Elements of the Nazi playbook" are unfolding now.
"Slowly, slowly, slowly, we are drifting into accepting a diminished democracy"
#VotoDeConfianza | ¿Qué dijo el primer ministro Guido #Bellido que generó una pataleta de la oposición y rechazaron el #quechua y #aimara durante presentación del Gabinete? (1/2)
Kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth w/ the Studies in #LatinAmerican and #Spanish#History Series. This collection bridges the divide between studies of Latin America and peninsular Spain by employing transnational and comparative approaches: https://t.co/XUYvDpVCZO @BerghahnHistory
Happy that this great book has come out, just in time for the new cohorts of Spanish studies students arriving in the autumn. Thanks to the editors and production team for their hard work.
Public debate in Peru over the roots of linguistic discrimination and the reasons for denying it on the part of some conservative factions. https://t.co/HUUmn6Is9v
Hace un par de semanas fui invitado a participar en #Aprendoencasa. Intenté responder la pregunta "¿Por qué debemos mantener nuestras lenguas indígenas?" Di 3 razones para eso, la tercera de las cuales es que las lenguas son un #derecho de sus hablantes. Abro hilo.
Hoy se aprobó el Mapa Etnolingüístico: lenguas de los pueblos indígenas u originarios del Perú, un sistema informativo para la planificación y gestión del Estado y la sociedad civil que permitirá implementar políticas públicas y tomar mejores decisiones. #MejoresPeruanosSiempre
The Ministry of Culture in Peru publishes instructions for protection against Coronavirus in 17 of the country's indigenous languages. Acciones contra el coronavirus | Lenguas Originarias #GobPe https://t.co/rY4lAJUGBp
Con la militarización de las ciudades más importantes de #Bolivia rige un estado de sitio de facto que ha suspendido derechos y garantías constitucionales del pueblo, una prueba más de la dictadura de Áñez que gobierna el país.
Catch up on the great meeting on critical approaches to language research in Newcastle in Oct 2019 with funding support from Newcastle and the OWRI project. All details and full video coverage here https://t.co/wO58eQzkxn
See this report on a talk I gave at Universidad de Cuenca on 25 April 2019, in daily paper El Tiempo in Cuenca, Ecuador. Pretty accurate, but omits to say that vocabulary from the pre-inca Cañari language is also found in the Spanish of Azuay and Cañar https://t.co/JjXwkUx8qS
Great paper by Jorge Catalá Carrasco from @SML_Newcastle on euphoric narratives in Peru around the country's qualification for the 2018 World Cup finals #AHGBI2019 @AHGBI19Durham
Workshop: 'Memory, Ritual and Symbolic Reparations: Challenges and Opportunities for Historical Justice and Human Rights'
Monday 25 March, 2019, 9.30-16.00
https://t.co/ZFzdQImuqc to register
It's cool what you can confirm about 16th-century Spanish through loanwords in Colonial Nahuatl.
For example, Spaniards were called "Caxtiltēcah" or "inhabitants of Caxtillān."
Does that word seem familiar? It's derived from "Castilla." In Nahuatl, some place names end w/
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