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 ...

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 ...

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 are critically ...

Kaypi, Perú—“This Is Peru” in the indigenous Quechua language—highlights Peru’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and traditional arts. For the webcast portion of the festival, we recorded ...

Isabela Moner is using her role in this summer's Dora The Explorer as an opportunity to connect more deeply to her Peruvian ancestry. The actress and musician, whose mother is Peruvian and father ...

The language of soccer games is ripe with phrases, metaphors and clichés that reflect modern life: a coach who parks the bus, a midfielder who shoots rockets, a striker who scores with a bicycle kick.