Latin America

Ethnic Diversity & Languages

Vocabulary

• Ethnicity: ancestral and cultural heritage• Indigenous: native to a region or specific

area• Mestizo: a person of mixed European and

Native American descent• Mulatto: a person of mixed African and

European descent• Creole: of European descent born in the

Caribbean or South America

Languages

• Dialect: the form of a language unique to a specific region or area

• Quechua: language spoken by the Inca people (Peru)

• Guarani: language of the people indigenous to Paraguay

• Mayan: indigenous language spoken in Guatemala

• Nahuatl: ancient Aztec language (Mexico)

Languages

1. Grotendeels bedekt met ongerept oerwoud.

2. En effet, les plus fort taux sont dans les communes rurales peuplées exclusivement d'Amérindiens.

3. Un hombre fue rescatado esta mañana tras caer en un barranco de cerca de mil metros de profundidad, en la zona este de la provincia de Catamarca...

Languages

4. Brasil e Argentina foram sempre protagonistas de jogos emocionantes, decisoes dramaticas e ate' batalhas campais.

5. How are you? - Kijan ou ye?

What's your name? - Kijan ou rele?

6. noqa mikhuni I eat / yo como.

parlancheq We talk

Languages

7. à aha ya ha à ha ya à I went, I played, I fell.8. Apyka puku kupépe, aguapy apuka puku. behind a big long pew I sit down and

keep laughing for a long while. 9. Bix a belex? Hi, how are you? Maloob I'm fine, OK. Yum botic Thank you Mixba You're welcome

Languages

10. acahualli. Sunflower.

achtontli. Great-grandfather, ancestor.

Languages - Answers

1. Grotendeels bedekt met ongerept oerwoud.

2. En effet, les plus fort taux sont dans les communes rurales peuplées exclusivement d'Amérindiens.

3. Un hombre fue rescatado esta mañana tras caer en un barranco de cerca de mil metros de profundidad, en la zona este de la provincia de Catamarca...

Dutch

French

Spanish

Languages - Answers

4. Brasil e Argentina foram sempre protagonistas de jogos emocionantes, decisoes dramaticas e ate' batalhas campais.

5. How are you? - Kijan ou ye?

What's your name? - Kijan ou rele?

6. noqa mikhuni I eat / yo como.

parlancheq We talk

Portuguese

Creole

Quechua

Languages - Answers

7. à aha ya ha à ha ya à I went, I played, I fell.8. Apyka puku kupépe, aguapy apuka puku. behind a big long pew I sit down and keep

laughing for a long while. 9. Bix a belex? Hi, how are you? Maloob I'm fine, OK. Yum botic Thank you Mixba You're welcome

Guarani

Guarani

Mayan

Languages - Answers

10. acahualli. Sunflower.

achtontli. Great-grandfather, ancestor.

• Video Clip: – Indigenous Languages in Mexico– Children Learning Nahuatl

Nahuatl