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 ...

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 ...

Wilfredo Villca is a native of the community of Totora in Potosí, Bolivia, and he currently lives in Sucre. His path as a content creator in Quechua started before he knew it as “digital activism” and ...

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 ...

A widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas to fulfill undergraduate requirement starting spring 2021. Since her debut in 2014, Dora the Explorer has become a huge hit with kids, featured not ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — What happens when you take Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, and fuse it with K-pop, the global musical sensation with roots in South Korea?

A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in Quechua – the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes.

A young Peruvian musician singing and rapping about current topics like taking care of the earth in the ancient Quechua language is among a growing number of people driving a revival for indigenous ...