Indigenous languages thriving in Columbia

AL Jazeera Americas

More of country's indigenous communities speaking their native languages than in any time in recent memory. Last Modified: 09 Aug 2011 16:44 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/201189132130817162.html

More of Colombia's indigenous peoples are speaking their native languages than in any time in recent memory. This is thanks to a two-decades old change in education policy that ended a prohibition on teaching Indian languages, resulting in an increasingly confident indigenous community. Indigenous organisations estimate that 80 per cent of the country's 1.4 million Indians speak a native language - up from around 60 per cent three decades ago. Al Jazeera's Toby Muse has more from Bogota.