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Item type:Publication, Automating the proposition of neologisms for the Quechua language(Cambridge University Press, 2024-12-01)I introduce a discussion about the importance of coining new words for endangered languages. Coining new words is one of the many tasks that must be done to revitalize endangered languages. I propose a method for automating the process of coining new words and evaluate the method in the Quechua language. The method starts by collecting a list of English words, then translating these words into several other languages, generating a list for each language, and performing IPA notation of all lists; finally, a rule-based algorithm identifies words that match the phonotactics of the target language. The method can propose thousands of words as neologisms in the target language.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Common beliefs and openness discourses among learners of Quechua as a second language in Peru: An analysis of linguistic ideologies(Taylor and Francis, 2024-01-01)In Peru, there has been a recent noticeable increase in the number of Quechua as a second language courses. This language is not frequently studied in formal instructional contexts, so it is interesting to focus on students’ beliefs. Therefore, this study was framed within the analysis of linguistic ideologies and considered common representations of Quechua. This study analyzed data from students at two language centers. The data were collected in 2022 through a questionnaire about their classes, their motivation to study, their opportunities to practice outside of class, and the usefulness they saw in their learning, among other aspects. Three main discourses were identified, confirming the most stereotypical representations of Quechua, i.e., it is a central element of Peruvian identity, it is exclusively spoken in the rural Andes, and it is the only language that its speakers know. These views were further reinforced by the ways in which the language centers offered Quechua classes on their websites. However, there were also discourses of greater openness: Some students referred to the link between Quechua and their families and the value of more contemporary linguistic practices, such as the presence of Quechua in current musical genres and social networks. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Youth, Quechua and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Perú(De Gruyter Mouton, 2023-03-01)Framed within a critical and ethnographic approach to language policy, my study addresses the phenomenon of language commodification and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in contemporary Perú. Specifically, I address a project of Quechua teaching in the city of Lima called Quechua para Todos, or Quechua for All, promoted by young Quechua activists developing interventions to change historically established imaginaries. Taking this project as a starting point, I analyze what is behind the extremely high demand these Quechua courses are having among youth in the capital city, where Quechua has been historically silenced. My argument is that a significant group of the young students from the courses have begun to integrate the Quechua language to the figure of the entrepreneurial subject for whom both personal and national branding is central. While speaking Quechua has historically indexed 'indianness' linked to backwardness, rurality, ancestrality and ignorance, it is now being associated with other linguistic and non-linguistic signs (such as being a professional and knowing English) to enregister a multicultural citizenship within a context of neoliberal economic growth and state policies of cultural branding. Although the demand to study Quechua in Lima is shifting the meanings and values of Quechua, at least within a domain of speakers, it may also be erasing ongoing processes of racialization of indigenous peoples in Peruvian society and fundamental gaps in access to education and economic resources.6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Disentangling (de)colonial teacher education in the Andes: Dilemmas and possibilities(Wiley, 2025-09-01)Based on recent discussions on language and decoloniality and employing an ethnographic approach, this article examines a teacher education program in “primary intercultural education” at a public university in the Southern Peruvian Andes, in a context with a majority Quechua‐speaking population and youth with diverse bilingual trajectories. The goal of this article is to complexify the categories of coloniality and decoloniality of language by studying a reflection‐based action conducted by grassroots Quechua activists and teacher educators, which involves developing an academic Quechua register with the aim of empowering students as authors of their texts in the Indigenous language. These activists assume their intervention as a decolonial and critical strategy to neutralize hierarchies with respect to the oppression of the Spanish language, deracialize mother tongue education, and incorporate a social justice approach to counteract a depoliticized view of interculturalism. However, simultaneously, these activists promote a neat, autonomous, and disembodied Quechua; disfavor translanguaging practices; and erase the signifier of bilingualism, reproducing the coloniality of language and disempowering many of the students. These results confirm the need for further cycles of critical reflection when developing reflection‐based actions.1