TheInstituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (English: National Indigenous Languages Institute) better known by its acronymINALI, is a Mexican federal public agency, created 13 March 2003 by the enactment of theLey General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas (General Law of Indigenous Peoples' Linguistic Rights) by the administration ofPresidentVicente Fox Quesada.
It is a decentralized agency of theFederal Public Administration, attached to theSecretariat of Public Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública, or SEP). Its supreme organ is the National Council, of which theSecretary of Public Education serves as president, with a Director General in charge of its day-to-day activities.
INALI works to promote and protect the use ofMexico's indigenous languages, which it divides into 68living "linguistic groups" andhundreds of "linguistic varieties". While many of the "groups" have traditionally been considered single languages, INALI recommends that the "varieties" be considered as separate languages in all matters of justice, education, health, and civil administration or information. One of INALI's main tasks is to prevent the disappearance and extinction of indigenous languages that have survived frompre-Hispanic times.
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