What are native languages and where are they spoken? Learn the importance of these expressions that are part of our identity as a country.

But the language's status began to decline following the Spanish conquest of Peru. Though Spanish authorities initially tolerated Quechua, they banned it following an Indigenous rebellion in 1781.

About 10 native languages in Peru are spoken by only 20 to 200 people, one is used by some 1,500 people and the most common in the Amazon is Ashaninka, with some 400,000 speakers.

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 ...

Isabela Moner learned an indigenous Peruvian language for her role in "Dora the Explorer," set to be released in August.

In Peru this summer, Washington choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess worked with Spanish-speaking dancers; his body was pressed into service as translator, testing whether dance really is a ...

Teacher Carmen Cazorla writes in the Quechua Indigenous language during a class on medicinal plants at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. “For 500 years Spanish ...