It may be, however, that in the 21st century they are able to reclaim their voice, although the ways in which they choose to do so may surprise us. This paper examines the portrayal of the highland Quechua people in Peruvian literature, government documents, academic writings and the media....
In the Andean country, young Indigenous musicians use hip-hop as an expression of their language and culture.
Quechua was written with a Spanish-based orthography. In 1975, the Peruvian government adopted a new orthography for Quechua which replaced the Spanish-based representations
(Peripheral Quechua). The latter can be further categorized as North Peruvian Quechua (A-II), spoken in Peru, Northern Quechua (B-II), spoken in Columbia and Ecuador, and Southern Quechua (C-II), the most widely spoken dialect that can be found across Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. With ...
This dissertation explores the beliefs and practices of teachers who are implementing the Bilingual Intercultural Education (BIE) government policy in Quechua communities of the southern Peruvian Andes. I examine how a top-down educational policy supposedly aiming to revert the socio-economic and ...
Although the languages are still spoken by a large population of Indians, many of whom are monolingual, they are slowly losing ground to the Spanish language, which is the language of government and education. Some scholars place the Quechuan languages and the Aymaran languages together in a Qu...