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Bolivia: Keeping Aymara Alive Through TV?

Categories: Latin America, Bolivia, Indigenous, Language

M. Luk’aña Champi [1] [es] wonders why Bolivia doesn't have a TV channel in Aymara [2] or Quechua [3], considering that the country is now ruled by an ‘indigenous government': “Modern media like radio and television are ways to keep a language alive and in full use. When a language is not used that language dies.”