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 ...

The University began offering Quechua language courses through the Penn Language Center in 2014, following a petition by several graduate students. Three Quechua classes are offered at Penn. In 2019, ...

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 ...

The Penn Language Center began offering elementary and intermediate Quechua classes two years ago, when several graduate students successfully petitioned to start a Quechua language program. Today, it ...

To launch the new program, Américo Mendoza-Mori, coordinator of the Quechua language program at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke remotely to a CU Boulder audience on October 17 about his role as ...

Kuélap isn't just an important Peruvian pre-Inca archaeological site of the Chachapoya culture located Amazonas region. It is also the name of a recollection tool for the project QuechuaASR that aims ...

Sisa Quispe is one of those 10 million. She says rap, hip-hop, trap and even Quechua or Q-pop artists are making names for themselves far beyond the Andes and spreading the Indigenous language.

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.

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.