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.

CCARHUACC LICAPA, Peru (AP) — 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 ...

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...

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 ...

Students, faculty, and staff in Penn’s Quechua Language Program are working to raise awareness about the program on campus in an effort to increase funding and resources from the University. Quechua ...

Lenin Tamayo is packing his bags for his biggest leap yet. In many ways, the musician’s first tour in Asia this month has been a long time coming, given that the 24-year-old is the inventor of Quechua ...

While most people know what Hebrew is, few would recognize Quechua. But just as many people — about six to eight million — speak each language. Quechua is an indigenous language spoken in central ...

Broadcast targeted speakers of language still spoken by 4 million Peruvians, symbolically ending centuries of marginalisation For the first time in Peru’s history, a national news broadcast has been ...

Andy Celino, owner of Quechua’s Peruvian Rotisserie Chicken & Cuisine in Swatara Township, knew he needed a bigger place for his restaurant. Since opening last year, Quechua at the TecPort Busienss ...

Halting efforts to promote the Quechua language hit the spotlight last month when Peru’s new prime minister surprised the nation by delivering a speech in the Indigenous tongue to Congress for the ...