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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is part of Global Sounds, a collection of stories spotlighting the music trends forging connections in 2024. I still remember my first trip to Cusco in the Peruvian Andes as a kid. My grandmother ...

An oral language rich in history from Peru is having a moment, with artists using it in hip hop, rap, trap, and pop music. It's not Spanish, and it's not Latin. Quechua is a language all its own.