Resumen de Linguistics and Indigenous American Languages: Mayan Examples
Most recent linguistic work on indigenous American languages has been done by foreign scholars. Speakers of all American languages who have been politically and economically marginalized since European contact are now, however, gaining some greater access to higher education and political power. Mayas have become increasingly interested in learning linguistics in order to take control of language decisions that affect them. They have both benefited from training from foreign scholars and criticized the foreign linguistic effort. An examination of this relationship provides a case study of the emergence of new patterns of cooperation between outside linguists and speakers
