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 ...

THE son of European refugees, Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, is fluent in Spanish, English, German and French. He does not speak any of the country’s 47 indigenous languages. Yet his ...

Lima, Jun 24 (EFE).Lima, Jun 24 (EFE). — When the last Taushiro speaker dies, the language will never be heard again in the Peruvian jungles. Officials are working to prevent cultural tragedies like ...

The children sit rapt as Rosalbina Valerio, 77, recounts a traditional fable in her native Jaqaru, a language now so rare that it is spoken by only 580 people in three villages scattered along a ...

Notes on the back of a 400-year-old letter have revealed a previously unknown language once spoken by indigenous peoples of northern Peru, an archaeologist says. Penned by an unknown Spanish author ...

A doctoral student has become the first Peruvian student at one of South America’s oldest universities to write her thesis in Quechuan, the native language of the Incas. Roxana Quispe Collantes began ...

Isabela Moner is using her role in this summer's Dora The Explorer as an opportunity to connect more deeply to her Peruvian ancestry. The actress and musician, whose mother is Peruvian and father ...

LONGMONT — Success comes in many forms. And, as brothers and Peruvian natives Jay and David Minaya have learned, many languages. The pair have opened a third outlet of their business, Spanish Easy & ...

Teacher Carmen Cazorla writes in the Quechua Indigenous language during a class on medicinal plants at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. “For 500 years Spanish has ...