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6 - Language Regime Change in Peru

Authoritarian State Traditions and Unexpected Effects of Democratic Reforms

from Part I - Routes of Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Stéphanie Rousseau  and
Eduardo Dargent
Edited by
Ericka Albaugh ,
Linda Cardinal  and
Rémi Léger
Ericka Albaugh
Affiliation:
Bowdoin College, Maine
Linda Cardinal
Affiliation:
Université de l'Ontario français
Rémi Léger
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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Summary

Peru is a multiethnic society whose postcolonial language regime was marked by the dominance of Spanish as the exclusive language of state bureaucracy up until recently. There are now forty-eight different Indigenous languages recognized by the state. The process of language regime transformation in Peru started with state traditions of monolingualism by defect, followed by incremental change in state recognition of Indigenous languages and the subsequent development of Indigenous language rights as manifested in constitutional and legislative norms. The adoption of a multilingual language regime based on linguistic rights for minorities was not the product of the Indigenous movement´s actions, nor those of ethnic parties. Institutional reforms that were not designed, and were not expected, to advance linguistic rights, allowed some actors the framework to accelerate incremental change.

Keywords

PeruSpanishindigenous languagesmonolingualismmultilingualismbureaucracyauthoritarianismdemocracy
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States of Language Policy
Theorizing Continuity and Change
 , pp. 106 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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