Iruña-Pamplona. The Navarrese Minister of Citizen Relations, Ana Ollo, welcomed Salvadoran linguist, Jorge Lemus, on Monday who has received the National Culture Award in El Salvador for his work on the recovery of this language that has borrowed the linguistic immersion of Navarrese ikastolas as a model for the recovery of the Náhuat Pipil indigenous language. This language is in serious danger of extinction with only 75 speakers and another 150 semi-speakers left, as it is experiences serious problems of generational relief.
Also attending the meeting was the Director of Euskarabidea, Mikel Arregi, an organism that professor Lemus has a long relationship with, in order to study to the immersion linguistic model used at ikastolas (Basque language immersion schools), and their application in the revitalization of the indigenous language through the "Cuna Náuhat" project.
The “Cuna Náuhat” Project is a program of linguistic immersion aimed at indigenous children in the cities of Santo Domingo de Guzman and Santa Catarina Masahuat. The recuperation of this language beg in 2003 with a school project to teach basic concept that continued with the implication of, mainly, grandmothers and oral transmission of the language to their grandchildren since their parents had already lost it.
The “Cuna Náuhat,” is attended by indigenous women in the community of old Nahuat speakers who are called “nanzin,” and since its launch, has served about 400 children.
Jorge Lemus will give a talk on Tuesday entitled, Wild Logophagy. A Linguist in the Face of the Threat to Linguistic-Cultural Diversity.” At the Public University of Navarre (UPNA).
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