The last shall be first: the importance of heritage speakers
Keywords:
heritage speakers, linguistic rights, linguistic diversity, bilingualismAbstract
Linguistic diversity is at serious risk due to the displacement of 96% of globally spoken languages in favor of only 3% of dominant languages. Faced with such loss, actions to revitalize, strengthen and promote languages become fundamental in order to reverse this situation. In this scenario, heritage speakers, a recently recognized type of bilingualism, are considered essential to broaden the panorama of strategies to be implemented: due to their characteristics it is possible to increase the options of spaces of use and teaching of languages in favor of the ones that are at risk.
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