The government of Yucatán will undertake permanent programs to preserve and promote the use of the Mayan language as part of a living culture of the state’s historical heritage, said the general director of Museums and Heritage of the Sedeculta, Ana Eugenia Méndez Peterson.
Interviewed after presenting the activities that the Yucatecan government will carry out in the framework of the International Day of Indigenous Languages, the Sedeculta official said plans call for capsules in Mayan language that will be broadcast on local radio stations with which there are collaboration agreements.
Similarly, work is being done on the formation of a permanent cultural heritage seminar that will also include the promotion and preservation of the Mayan language as part of its offer, she said.
There are also plans to rescue the programs of support and dissemination for those artists or bands that make songs in Mayan language, where they have even identified groups of hip-hop and rock that compose and sing in that original language, he said.
In this context, the idea is to create an encounter with all those groups and artists to prepare a great sound festival in the Mayan language.
“Along with these actions, there are also plans to establish programs that not only revalue the importance of the Mayan language, but the importance of our indigenous roots that are undoubtedly an extremely valuable intangible cultural heritage.”
“We are heirs of a great cultural diversity that we all must assume and appropriate, and in the case of the government of Yucatan there is awareness and will for this promotion of the Mayan culture to be permanent and throughout the year and not only on the eve of a celebration, such as the International Day of Indigenous Languages,” she said.
For the specific case of that celebration, the Sedeculta prepared a series of roundtables, talks and conferences by renowned Maya specialists that will be held in various venues of this city, among which the Grand Museum of the Mayan Culture, the Manuel Cepeda Library stand out Peraza, and the Yucatan Library, among others.
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