Doris Loayza is a native Quechua and Spanish speaker, educator, and multimedia producer from Peru. She teaches high school Spanish (in Bloomington, IN), is a Quechua language partner for the Center ...

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 ...

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 ...

As digital content in the Quechua language continues to become increasingly available, Quechua-speaking communities are gaining more opportunities to better represent themselves online and connect ...

CCARHUACC LICAPA, Peru -- Leila Ccaico walked slowly to the front of her class in a rural village in the Andes. Reluctantly, she faced her classmates, obeyed her teacher's orders and started to sing ...

For more than a decade, the University of Virginia, Duke University and Vanderbilt University have partnered to offer courses in languages not often taught in Western academic institutions, including ...

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 ...