Peru’s indigenous-language push
A president with European roots gives Quechua and Aymara a boost
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 government is doing more to encourage the use of those tongues than did those of his predecessors, some of whom have indigenous roots.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “News they can use”
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