Langauges in Bolivia

This post is about the different languages that Bolivia has. When I went back to Bolivia to study abroad for a year, I remember my teachers trying to show us a language. I couldn't quite remember it so I googled all the languages spoken in Bolivia to help refresh my memory.

There are 26 languages spoken in Bolivia!!

Now this are probably languages that are spoken between small villages and Spanish or Castellano is the language that dominates most of Bolivia. But the language I was looking for is called Quechua.

The language of Quechua is what makes up most of the indigenous people in Bolivia. Most textbooks only reference make up people with cultural background of Quechua and Aymara.  These people live in Bolivia's highland, but recently they moved to low lines due to the reduced prices in Agriculture prices. The culture and languages of Quechua are slowly dying out. What my school was trying to do was preserve an indigenous language. They aren't doing the best but that is because of the school system itself and not because of their attempt. The point of this is because all over minority languages are being lost to the world more dominant languages. This can be good and bad. If the more dominant languages stay then the universe will eventually have language where everyone can understand one another. In the other sense, smaller cultures will have the lost their way in time because their language would have died out.