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Friendship and indigenous languages: Quechua's dynamism in Paris
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Through the organization of an event on Quechua in 2016, a network of friendship and academic collaboration was formed within Inalco's Languages and Cultures of the Americas department. Since then, numerous activities have been organized by Inalco students with a passion for the Americas. This momentum is set to continue in 2019, particularly in the context of Unesco's International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Languages and history of indigenous societies in South America - (16th-19th centuries)
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In the South American field, little research had been done on the social history of indigenous languages, and even less on ancient documents written in these languages, which are the only way to understand Indian societies in their own terms. Since 2011, the Langas project (Langues générales de l'Amérique du Sud, XVIe - XIXe siècles) has brought together historians, linguists and anthropologists working mainly on Brazil, Paraguay and the Andean countries, around two questions: the diffusion and transformations of the major vehicular languages of the colonial era (then called "general languages": Tupi, Guarani, Quechua and Aymara) and the comparative study of indigenous political languages during the same period.