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Meanwhile in Bolivia, where the government has yet
to give formal support to bilingual education, only one
organization has so far as I know published materials
relevant to sociolinguistics: the Centro Pedagégico y
Cultural de Portales in Cochabamba, which is supported by
the Patifio Foundation. In connection with a series of
educational conferences and seminars for Aymara and Quechua
speakers, Portales (as it is usually called) began in
1973 to publish in mimeographed form such materials as
articles by Javier Alb6 on the future of Aymara and
Quechua (which he considers to be ‘oppressed languages';
Alb6 1973a) and on Aymara and Quechua educational radio
programs in Bolivia (Alb6 1973b). Also in 1973 Portales
published the Yapita phonemic alphabet and in 1974, my
article on the Aymara four-person system (Briggs 1974a)
and a summary of Hardman's article on Aymara linguistic
postulates (Hardman 1972a).

Portales has also assisted sociolinguistic sur-
veys. In 1973 and 1974, Yapita and Pedro Plaza, the
director of INEL, conducted with Portales and Ford Founda-
tion support sociolinguistic surveys of groups of Aymara
and Quechua speakers in Bolivia using methods developed
by Wolfgang W6lck for Quechua in Peru (W6lck 1972 and
1973).

A valid contribution to knowledge of the Aymara-

speaking population of northern Potosi department is an