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 ...

Peru is one of the richest countries in culture and history. Because of its diversity, Peruvians do not only have the Spanish language as the only language to express themselves. This aspect is ...

Lima - Archaeologists say scrawls on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru. A team of ...

LIMA (AFP) - Amadeo Garcia has no one left to talk to in his mother tongue, Taushiro. Neither does Pablo Andrade, the last living speaker of Resigaro. The two indigenous languages are among 17 that ...

Sometime in the early 17th century, at Magdalena de Cao, a community of resettled native peoples in the Chicama Valley on the North Coast of Peru, a Spaniard used the back of a letter to jot down the ...

Adrian Saba’s drama “The Cleaner,” set in an apocalyptic Lima, is Peru’s pick for the foreign-language film category at the Academy Awards. The Ministry of Culture, which established a committee for ...

Archaeologists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru. A team of international ...