Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua


The Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua is a private institution in Cusco, founded in 1990, concerned with the "purity" of Quechua.
The AMLQ takes the point of view that there is only one single Quechua language and that the present Quechua of the city of Cusco, with all its regional peculiarities should be the official standard for all Quechua; it uses the term "Inka Quechua" to refer to present-day Cusco Quechua. The AMLQ vehemently promotes the old Quechua alphabet established by the Peruvian government in 1975, which corresponds mostly to the current alphabet fixed in 1985, but by contrast contains the five vowels a, e, i, o, u.
The AMLQ refers to a law passed by the Peruvian Congress on June 6, 1990, establishing a Quechua language academy in the city of Cusco. However, it gets little-to-no funding from the Peru, and because its opinions on orthography are counter to those of the Peruvian Education Ministry and almost all linguists and professionals working in Quechua education, the Academy has a very limited involvement in its intention.
For a number of reasons, the AMLQ has generally hostile and very poor relationships with most linguists working on Quechua, who have often heavily criticised its approach.

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