Barbara Muelas, the Eight-Year-Old Linguisticist Misak Who Builds the First Bilingual Dictionary of Her Language

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Around the stove, in the kitchen, in the house, in the center of it – “Nakkuk, Nakchak” – This is the genesis of learning for the Misak, an indigenous village composed of about 21,000 people and settled in the southwestern Colombia, mainly in Silvia, in Cauca. In that municipality surrounded by the Piendamó River and the imposing mountains of the Andes Central Cordillera, there is a modest office in a small house. Barbara Muelas has been unravel…