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<p class="MsoNormal">Peru's public TV airs first news programme in Quechua<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Image caption The programme is presented in Quechua by Clodomiro Landeo and Marisol Mena<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peru's public broadcaster, TV Peru, has begun broadcasting its first ever news programme in Quechua, the ancient indigenous language spoken by some eight million people in the Andes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The hour-long programme, entitled Nuqanchik (We), airs on weekdays at 05:30 on radio and TV.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All journalists and producers working on the programme are native speakers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quechua was spoken by the indigenous people of Peru before the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th Century.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It was declared a national language alongside Spanish in the 1970s but Peruvians say there is still a strong social stigma attached to speaking it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has backed the new programme and sent its producers and presenters a message in Quechua: "Allinta munay, allinta yachay, allinta ruway," (Wish well, learn well, do well.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mr Kuczynski, both of whose parents emigrated to Peru from Europe, said he hoped the programme would help end discrimination.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Presenter Marisol Mena said it would contribute to creating an awareness that Quechua was not a language of the poor or disadvantaged.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"There's resistance, but [Peruvians] have to understand that there are business executives and university professors who speak Quechua as a mother tongue," she told the Agence France Press news agency.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TV Peru said it was planning to launch similar programmes in other indigenous languages.<o:p></o:p></p>
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