Quechua students form a tight-knit community that immerses itself in Quechuan language and culture outside of the classroom. “After class, a few of us sang the Barbie Girl song in Quechua, which was ...

Penn graduate student Nico Suárez-Guerrero is the first Quechua Fulbright scholar in the Ivy League and currently the only one in the United States. Penn hosts one of seven programs in the United ...

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.

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 ...

Moreover, the hundred people in question had to be native Quechua speakers, rather than people who had learned Quechua as a second language. To achieve this, there was an open call for volunteers who ...

For all the budding Indiana Joneses on campus, the Center for Latin American Studies has the class for you. For the second straight semester, the university is offering elementary Quechua, one of the ...

Quechua is one of the most vibrant and important languages of the Americas. With around 7-8 million speakers in the Americas, most of them concentrated in the Andean region in South America, the ...

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.

In the coming weeks, roughly two dozen students will become the inaugural graduates from Ecuador’s first public Indigenous ...

Books written in the Quechua Indigenous language sit behind a student during a class on medicinal plants, at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Quechua speakers are ...