Broadcast targeted speakers of language still spoken by 4 million Peruvians, symbolically ending centuries of marginalisation For the first time in Peru’s history, a national news broadcast has been ...

Growing up in the mountains of southern Peru, Marisol Necochea learned early on that being native is seen as inferior — and speaking Quechua is a sure sign of that. Quechua, or Runa Simi — "language ...

Noemí Vizcardo is no stranger to Global Voices. Her blog Habla Quechua – focused on helping Spanish speakers learn Quechua – is one of the few, perhaps the only, penned in Latin America's most-spoken ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — What happens when you take Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, and fuse it with K-pop, the global musical sensation with roots in South Korea?

A widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas to fulfill undergraduate requirement starting spring 2021. Since her debut in 2014, Dora the Explorer has become a huge hit with kids, featured not ...

It took Peru’s Augusto Zegarra nine years to complete his debut feature documentary ‘Runa Simi’ but less than a year to reap ...

About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was long all but impossible ...

Quechua dates back to the Incas and is spoken from Colombia to Chile. We speak to a specialist in Quechua about the fight to preserve the 2,000 year old language The world’s linguistic map is a ...

Wilfredo Villca is a native of the community of Totora in Potosí, Bolivia, and he currently lives in Sucre. His path as a content creator in Quechua started before he knew it as “digital activism” and ...

THE son of European refugees, Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, is fluent in Spanish, English, German and French. He does not speak any of the country’s 47 indigenous languages. Yet his ...