Topic: Preservation of Endangered Languages
Country: Mexico
Delegate Name: Kelsi Conroy
School: Kalamazoo Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Mexico position papers GLIMUN 2013 committees
The country of Mexico acknowledges the issue of endangered languages becoming extinct. The many languages of the world are what capture the history and difference of people everywhere. These differences, whether they are individual or cultural, expose us to new ideas, tastes, and activities. This is why the country of Mexico is for the preservation, and protection of these endangered languages.
The country of Mexico recognizes the absurdly difficult task of preserving endangered languages. Mexico asks countries harboring endangered or indigenous languages to be respectful of their native practices in terms of social fairness, opportunity, and their environment and human rights, as long as these practices do not endanger the populace abroad.
Mexico also realizes the number of endangered languages that needs to be preserved, seeing as there is over 200 indigenous languages in Mexico, and over 130 have gone extinct already. Mexico has made 68 indigenous languages national languages. The country of Mexico has made laws to help protect these languages but we would like to do more.
The country of Mexico is conscious that is issue is worldwide, and suggests the birth of programs designed to protect and preserve these languages through documentation. Mexico has empathy for those who suffer from language extinction and kindly ask that parties interfering with this to allow humans to maintain much of their culture and languages with minimum interference unless to help protect these languages. But in general, if countries can do this in a timely and efficient manner it would be optimum for both indigenous people and the countries itself.
