<div dir="ltr"><div>all: I am re-forwarding this message because I was trying to find a recent article in the NYTimes describing the use of Quechua</div><div>to give an account of a world cup match in Peru. I couldn't find the NYTimes article but this one precedes it and makes it</div><div>more salient.</div><div><br></div><div>HS<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fierman, William</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wfierman@indiana.edu">wfierman@indiana.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:29 PM<br>Subject: [lg policy] Peru's public TV airs first news programme in Quechua<br>To: "Fierman, William" <<a href="mailto:wfierman@indiana.edu">wfierman@indiana.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peru's public TV airs first news programme in Quechua<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38301253" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-<wbr>latin-america-38301253</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Image caption The programme is presented in Quechua by Clodomiro Landeo and Marisol Mena<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All journalists and producers working on the programme are native speakers.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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.)<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TV Peru said it was planning to launch similar programmes in other indigenous languages.<u></u><u></u></p>
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