Mexican indigenous languages at the dawn of the twenty-first century / edited by Margarita Hidalgo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mexican indigenous languages in the twenty-first century / Margarita Hidalgo -- The Indianization of Spaniards in New Spain / Claudia Parodi -- The multiple dimensions of language maintenance and shift in colonial Mexico / Margarita Hidalgo -- Socio-historical determinants in the survival of Mexican indigenous languages / Margarita Hidalgo -- Legislating diversity in twenty-first century Mexico / Dora Pellicer, Bárbara Cifuentes and Carmen Herrera -- Centralization vs. local initiatives. Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languages / F. Daniel Althoff -- The Mexican indigenous languages and the national censuses: 1970-2000 / Bárbara Cifuentes and José Luis Moctezuma -- Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala / Jacqueline H.E. Messing and Elsie Rockwell -- Bilingual education : strategy for language maintenance or shift of Yucatec Maya? / Barbara Pfeiler and Lenka Zámišová -- Intervention in indigenous education. Culturally-sensitive materials for bilingual Nahuatl speakers / José Antonio Flores Farfán -- Stages of bilingualism. Local conversational practices among Mazahuas / Dora Pellicer -- Language policy. Past, present, and future / Margarita Hidalgo.

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This book provides a valuable insight into the past and present situation of Mexican indigenous languages (MIL). It delves into the dynamics of power that emerged in the Mexican colony as a result of the presence of Spanish, today the dominant language in all public domains. After almost five hundred years, the imbalance of power-sharing functions created the need for structural changes that resulted in the new legislation of 2003. The book also offers innovative classifications of MIL, trends of bilingualism, and new programs of bilingual education. It reinterprets the chronology of language policy in the early colonial period and provides the rationale for reversing language shift in the twenty-first century.

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