Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua
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The Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (Spanish
; English: Highest Academy of the Quechua Language) AMLQ in Cusco
is a private institution, founded in 1990, concerned with the 'purity' of the Quechua language.
The AMLQ takes the point of view that there is only one single Quechua language and that the present Quechua of the city of Cusco (no intermediate form like Southern Quechua
) with all its regional peculiarities should be the official standard for all Quechua. It uses the term "Inca Quechua" (Quechua Inka or Inka Qheswa) meaning present Cusco Quechua. The AMLQ vehemently promotes the old Quechua alphabet established by the Peru
vian government in 1975, which corresponds mostly to the present alphabet fixed in 1985, but by contrast contains the five vowels a, e, i, o, u.
The AMLQ refers to a law (No 25260) passed by the Peruvian congress on June 6, 1990, establishing a Quechua language academy in the city of Cusco. On the other hand, it gets almost no money at all from the State, and because its opinions on orthography are counter to those of the Peruvian Education Ministry and almost all linguists and professionals working in Quechua education, the Academy has had little real involvement in this.
For a number of reasons, the AMLQ has generally hostile and very poor relationships with most linguists working on Quechua, who have often heavily criticised its approach.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
; English: Highest Academy of the Quechua Language) AMLQ in Cusco
Cusco
Cusco , often spelled Cuzco , is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cuzco Province. In 2007, the city had a population of 358,935 which was triple the figure of 20 years ago...
is a private institution, founded in 1990, concerned with the 'purity' of the Quechua language.
The AMLQ takes the point of view that there is only one single Quechua language and that the present Quechua of the city of Cusco (no intermediate form like Southern Quechua
Southern Quechua
Southern Quechua , or only Quechua, is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 5 million speakers...
) with all its regional peculiarities should be the official standard for all Quechua. It uses the term "Inca Quechua" (Quechua Inka or Inka Qheswa) meaning present Cusco Quechua. The AMLQ vehemently promotes the old Quechua alphabet established by the Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian government in 1975, which corresponds mostly to the present alphabet fixed in 1985, but by contrast contains the five vowels a, e, i, o, u.
The AMLQ refers to a law (No 25260) passed by the Peruvian congress on June 6, 1990, establishing a Quechua language academy in the city of Cusco. On the other hand, it gets almost no money at all from the State, and because its opinions on orthography are counter to those of the Peruvian Education Ministry and almost all linguists and professionals working in Quechua education, the Academy has had little real involvement in this.
For a number of reasons, the AMLQ has generally hostile and very poor relationships with most linguists working on Quechua, who have often heavily criticised its approach.
External links
- Noemí Vizcardo Rozas: hablaquechua (member of AMLQ)
- A critical analysis by a sociolinguist of the motivation behind the AMLQ's positions, and whether they are helpful to Quechua, or counterproductive.
- Another linguist's experiences, both positive and negative, of working with the AMLQ.
- Traslate-quechua online Translate online quechua to/from English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Arabian etc.
Publicacions
- AMLQ (Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua) y Municipalidad del Qosqo (1995): Diccionario Quechua-Español-Quechua/Qheswa-Español-Qheswa Simi Taqe. Cusco. Online version (pdf 7,68 MB).