The state of Campeche faces a significant decline in the number of speakers of Indigenous languages, with a reduction of up to 10 percent every decade.
Currently, of the 928 thousand inhabitants of the state, 92 thousand people are speakers of Indigenous languages, concentrated mainly in the municipalities of Calkiní, Tenabo, Hecelchakán, Hopelchén, and Calakmul.
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This loss is due to racism and the lack of culturally relevant public policies that guarantee the rights of Indigenous people.
In addition, for 84 years there has been a breakdown in interest in preserving the predominant Mayan language in the state when the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) began to measure its educational system in Spanish, which caused the native languages to lose value.
Regarding indigenous education, of the 361 schools that should exist in the state, there are only 50, with barely 25 teachers who are fluent in the indigenous language. In addition, there is a lack of evaluations to verify whether the objectives are being met.
In Campeche, there is a need for the conservation of indigenous languages to be on the government’s agenda, as well as the importance of returning authority, autonomy, and self-determination to indigenous peoples.
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