Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos' has mentioned 'Language' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| In practice, the shortage of clergy and the low quality of those appointed by the bishop xe2x80x93 almost all of whom did not speak the language of the local peoples and in some cases had not been ordained xe2x80x93 led to a rapid general decline of the missions. | WIKI |
| Bernd Fischermann, an anthropologist who studied the Chiquitano, suggests three reasons that the Chiquitano preserved the heritage of the Jesuits even after their expulsion:[22] the memory of their prosperity with the Jesuits; the desire to appear as civilized Christians to mestizos and white people; and to preserve the ethnicity that originated from a mix of various culturally distinct groups blended by an enforced common language[nb 3] and customs learned from the Jesuits. | WIKI |
| [11] It should, however, be understood that by this time most of the inhabitants of these missions spoke Chiquitano as a second language. | WIKI |
| [11] Eventually Gorgotoqui, the formal name for language spoken by the Chiquitano tribe, became the lingua franca of the mission settlements, and the numerous tribes were culturally united in the Chiquitano ethnic group. | WIKI |
| [2][3][32] By 1770, within three years of the expulsion of the Jesuits, Spanish authorities instituted a new policy of forced "castilianization" or "Hispanicization" of the language, thereby causing the number of speakers of native languages to decline. | WIKI |
| According to various sources, in Bolivia the number of ethnic Chiquitanos is between 30,000 and 47,000xc2xa0 of which less than 6,000xc2xa0xe2x80x93 mainly elderly peoplexc2xa0xe2x80x93 still speak the original language. | WIKI |
| Only a few hundred are monolingual in the Chiquitano language. | WIKI |