Peru's public TV airs first news programme in Quechua [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

13 December 2016


Peru's public broadcaster, TV Peru, has begun broadcasting its first ever news programme in Quechua, the ancient indigenous language spoken by some eight million people in the Andes.

The hour-long programme, entitled Nuqanchik (We), airs on weekdays at 05:30 on radio and TV.

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Quechua was spoken by the indigenous people of Peru before the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th Century.

It was declared a national language alongside Spanish in the 1970s but Peruvians say there is still a strong social stigma attached to speaking it.


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