What happens when language learning has an ulterior political motive?
The Summer Institute of Linguistics was founded in the US during the 1930s. Its main goal was to train missionaries to translate the Bible into indigenous languages.
By embedding in isolated Latin American communities, they promoted literacy and created the first written records, dictionaries, and grammars for countless native tongues.
However, overtime, countries from the region started to question the seemingly-good intentions of this project.
