By Paarth Mathur ✐ Peruvian Times Contributing Writer ☄ The linguistic landscape of Peru is a story of resilience. Since the ...

From the seat of government in Cusco, the Inca managed a vast territory stretching over 770,000 square miles. Controlling ...

Five hundred years ago, Quechua was the lingua franca of the Inca Empire, which stretched from what is now southern Colombia to central Chile. But the language’s status began to decline ...

And no wonder. Hip-hop, he says, is a “way of thinking and living Quechua.” VILCASHUAMÁN, AYACUCHOAt the Ushnu, a pyramid where the Inca oversaw religious and military ceremonies, Flores film ...

He says that this identity sometimes results in feeling pride for the Inca, while discriminating against modern Quechua-speakers. They view what happened in the Spanish invasion as a sort of “reboot,” ...

En los Andes del Centro y Sur del Perú, y en especial en Ayacucho, habitan una importante diversidad de especies de anfibios ...

Indigenous Peruvians show no fear as they repair a centuries-old Inca rope suspension bridge -- the world's last. Every June, members of the Quechua Indigenous group come together to braid thick ...

Until the late 20th century, quinoa, a religious crop and staple food of the Inca, Aymard and Quechua indigenous peoples, was ...

Con raíces profundas en el Imperio Inca, el quechua fue utilizado como lengua franca a lo largo de un vasto territorio que abarcaba desde el sur de Colombia hasta el norte de Argentina y Chile.

It's not Spanish, and it's not Latin. Quechua is a language all its own. Around 10 million people speak it in countries such as Peru and Colombia. Sisa Quispe is one of those 10 million.

Named Quechua — after a family of languages that originated in Peru before the Inca Empire — it is taking over the former Teta Marie’s Lebanese Restaurant building at 1297 Broadway.