Indigenous people make up less than 6 percent of the global population but speak over 4,000 out of the 6,700 languages worldwide. Will these less-spoken languages survive the ravages of time
“It’s not spoken fluently, the dialect, but it is present in the concepts, in some words, in the anthroponymy and day-to-day life,” Carvajal tellsAfter sensing that the oral tradition was “being lost” due to the rising influence of technology among the youth in the traditional commune of Alto del Carmen located among the valleys of Huasco province, Carvajal embarked on a journey to preserve the tales and the language associated with it.
Two of them explore aspects of Kakan, touching on “nature and day-to-day life”. However, ‘Cuentos de las Abuelas Kakanas’ explores the Diaguita oral tradition, passed down through generations, in two different chapters. The first chapter includes some of Carvajal’s life experiences while the second explores the nature and culture of the area of Chile’s mountainous ‘Huasco Alto’ – vividly brought to life with illustrations from her daughter and members of the community.
She says today, concepts from Kakan prevail but over time have been replaced by Spanish, underscoring the role of the glaciers “Today we call them glaciers but before us, our forefathers called them the ‘perpetual banks’ - as the concept relates to preserving fresh water forever into the future.”
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