In the National Assembly was given, on Thursday, July 8, 2021, the approval of the Bill to Reform the Law of Indigenous Languages , in order to protect and promote more than 40 native languages of Venezuela.
The Yekuana(*) deputy Nicia Maldonado highlighted that the Indigenous Languages Law is related to the permanence of indigenous peoples: “for this reason we present the reform project to advance in the linguistic niches of the Institute of Languages of Indigenous Peoples together with the authorities and the people“.
In her intervention before the plenary, the Kariña(*) deputy of the people, Kariela Aray, highlighted the need to preserve and promote indigenous languages and called for unity to guarantee the preservation of the mother tongue from childhood: “That is our job, so that all let us wave the flag of decolonization”, she declared, and we subscribe in his words.
The deputy of the Kariña people added “while we see in other countries, governed by the lackeys of the empire, shamelessly eliminate their milenary cultures at their roots, murdering their native peoples, in this country we make laws to protect indigenous peoples, their languages, our rights as citizens”.
(*): Yekuana and Kariña are two Venezuelan native ethnic tribes represented within the National Assembly.
