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Results of our Language as a Cure project (TEAM Program, FNP) carried out at in collaboration with Nahua communities in Mexico. Olko, J., Lubiewska, K., Maryniak, J., Haimovich, G., de la Cruz, E., Cuahutle Bautista, B., Dexter-Sobkowiak, E., & Iglesias Tepec, H. (2021). The positive relationship between Indigenous language use and community-based well-being in four Nahua ethnic groups in Mexico. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication...

De Gruyter has just published a book entitled Loans in colonial and modern Nahuatl. A Contextual Dictionary by Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko and John Sullivan. This contextual dictionary of loanwords, loan phrases, and blends in Nahuatl, embracing data from the 1540s to 2016, is the first publication of its kind for this indigenous language, still widely spoken in many parts of Mexico. It relies on an extensive sample of colonial sources and contemporary oral and written materials representing several major variants of modern Nahuatl. The work significantly contributes to our understanding of language continuity and change. This dictionary...

Professor Justyna Olko has received ERC funding for implementing the MULTILING-HIST project. Her research team will carry out the “Multilingual worlds – neglected histories. Uncovering their emergence, continuity and loss in past and present societies” (MULTILING-HIST) project. Its main aim is to reconstruct, explain and better understand the mechanisms and causality of the processes behind the emergence, continuity, reduction and loss (as well as possible re-emergence) of multilingualism in differing historical, geographical, social, political and cultural contexts. Justyna Olko is the first female scholar in Poland and the representative of humanities and social sciences that has been awarded the...

Considering the public health situation associated with the coronavirus outbreak, the “Latin American Research in Poland: Recent Experiences, Achievements, Perspectives and Challenges” Symposium has been postponed to October 23–24, 2020. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Further information will be available in subsequent news. More...

Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity and Association Wilamowianie, with the support of the Foundation Institute „Arts Liberales”, have just published „Der Kliny Fjyśt”, or the „Little Prince” in the Wymysiöeryś language. The readers of the book will be the youth and other community members of Wilamowice and all fans and learners of Wymysiöeryś. We invite you to read the...