Preserving Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages and Cultures

Caribbean indigenous languages and their cultures were produced over thousands of years. In the 500 years since the arrival of Columbus, most of these languages and cultures have either disappeared or are seriously endangered. They must be preserved if we are not to lose a significant part of the heritage of mankind. Our aim is not merely to preserve things past.  Rather, we seek to be part of the process of maintaining bodies of linguistic and cultural knowledge, technologies and belief systems which can be useful to mankind in the present and the future.

Click here for an SIL International Media Release on an endangered and creole language symposium.