Cádiz (Spain) (EFE).- The kings and queens inaugurate this Monday the IX Language Congress (CILE) in southern Cádiz, a city that will become the capital of the Spanish language for four days and where some 300 international experts will analyze the situation and challenges of a language shared by almost 500 million native speakers.
The most important forum for reflection on Spanish is being held this week in Cádiz after it had to change its initial headquarters in Arequipa (Peru) due to the political and social problems of the Andean country.
The King and Queen will inaugurate CILE together with the heads of the organizing institutions: the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero; the director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and president of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE), Santiago Muñoz Machado, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares.
The miscegenation of the Spanish-speaking community, multilingualism, the native languages of America, the hybridization of Spanish and English, national literature, the literary use of “Spanglish” in America or language and artificial intelligence will be some of the issues that will address this congress.
There will also be topics directly related to its headquarters, such as the influence of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 or the live speech of the people of Cádiz.
The academic debates will be surrounded by an intense cultural agenda to celebrate Hispanic culture with music, theater, poetry and art, which will begin today with the show “Tempo de Luz”, in which three leading singers, Carmen Linares, Marina Heredia and Arcángel, will offer a flamenco repertoire from its roots to the most innovative proposals, accompanied by the dance of Ana Morales (National Dance Award 2022).
This is the second time that Spain has hosted a Spanish language congress since its inception -in 1997 in Zacatecas (Mexico)-, after Valladolid, where it was held in 2001.
Since then, the event has been held in Rosario, Argentina (2004); Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2007); Valparaiso, Chile (2010); Panama (2013), Puerto Rico (2016) and Córdoba, Argentina (2019).
