Quechua language - forbidden?

[T.Matthew Ciolek]

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Dear colleague,

As you may know last week we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of 
teaching and research of the Quechua language at the University of Bonn.
There were several invited speakers and the celebration was well attended. 

At the end a colleague from Peru who teaches Quechua  at the University of
Munich spoke to us saying that he had just come back from Peru and that
there he had heard that Parliament had just passed a law that 'forbids' the
Quechua language, and that the President, A. Fujimori, is about to sign the
law. Of course we are wondering what form exactly such a law has and would
therefore be grateful if you could circulate this message, and maybe some 
better informed colleague could give us additional information about this
rather incredible step of the Peruvian government.

Yours sincerely,
Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar
27 April 1996
e-mail: dedenbac at voelk.uni-bonn.de

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