Morales has plans to have all government workers and schoolchildren learn the main indigenous languages. The government estimates that 37 percent of the population speaks a native language that predates the arrival of Spanish colonists in the 16th century. Promoting those languages is part of a broad effort ``to decolonize the mindset and the Bolivian state.'' Education officials say the reemergence of Bolivia's indigenous languages is part of a regional trend. Interest in indigenous communities and traditions has grown in the past 20 years throughout South America.
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