Miryam Yataco is a Peruvian-born language rights advocate, an expert in bilingualism, and a trained sociolinguist. Her work is rooted in the idea of language rights as human rights.
Ms. Yataco’s focuses on language policies & language exclusion and discrimination. Her new research concentrates, on epistemological decolonization and, on Indigenous language policies developing in Latin America.
Yataco’s research interests include language policies, language ideologies, decolonization of knowledge and power, technologies of communication, linguistic and semiotic landscapes, native territories and language rights, and new Indigenous diasporas created through online resources.
Recently, she has developed a digital component to her language rights activism through social media such as Facebook. Follow link Language Rights, Derechos Linguisticos, Lenguas en riesgo | Facebook
Miryam Yataco has a multilingual background, her linguistic repertoire includes native proficiency (Oral & Literacy) in Spanish, English, Indonesian & Bengali (Bangla) and has linguistic training in quechua, ashaninka and in many other languages of the world.