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October 29, 2019

Peru: Graduate Student Makes History by Writing and Defending Thesis in Quechua
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In Peru, a graduate student has made history by becoming the first
student to write and defend a doctoral thesis in the indigenous Quechua
language. Roxana Quispe Collantes graduated from Lima's San Marcos
University, the oldest university in the Americas. She grew up speaking
Quechua with her parents and grandparents and said the language is being
resurrected in Peru.

Roxana Quispe Collantes: "Since time immemorial, since the time of our
ancestors, the Quechua language was present. Not only in technology, but
in engineering, in cosmology, our ancestors and our language are very
rich in knowledge, in wisdom. And yes, it is being rescued and
revitalized."



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