Microsoft teamed up with several universities in Peru's Quechua-speaking south to create the translation program, joining 47 other versions of Windows in such languages as Kazakh, Maori and Zulu.

The 73-year-old grandmother originally from Peru is co-founder of the 2-year-old New York Quechua Initiative, a small group dedicated to celebrating and spreading the official language of the Inca ...

But the language's status began to decline following the Spanish conquest of Peru. Though Spanish authorities initially tolerated Quechua, they banned it following an Indigenous rebellion in 1781.

Though the language was previously taught in upper-level Spanish classes, January was the first time students were able to take Quechua 1, said Felix Julca-Guerrero, who has been teaching the course.

However, when arriving to the Incan capital of Cusco, where Puquina was spoken, the language was developed and enriched with Kichua and Aymara terms, giving thus origin to the Cuscan Quechua that was ...

Quechua, or Runa Simi, was the language of the mighty Inca Empire, which ruled much of the north-western part of South America until the the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.

You didn’t need to understand Spanish, much less the Inca language of Quechua, to grasp the ancient race and class conflicts played out in “Santiago.” The haunting, dreamlike drama by Peru ...