THE QUECHUA ALPHABET

The Achahala, an illustrated Quechua alphabet, was published by the

promoter of Quechua, Dina Vera Lázaro and is available in the
bookstore El Virrey de Miraflores.

The intercultural communicator, Dina Vera Lazaro, published the

illustrated Quechua alphabet or achahala with an audio that facilitates
the pronunciation of the phonemes, through an electronic address.
Lovers of Andean culture can purchase it at the Virrey bookstore in
Miraflores.

This publication was published with the purpose of revitalizing,

preserving, promoting and spreading the Quechua language.

The design of the Achahala took into account the need to ensure that
the alphabet meets the criteria of ease and simplicity that are considered
by many linguists as the most effective way to help students in the
process of teaching-learning a language.

For this reason, the images that were designed for the Quechua
alphabet in mention are primarily adapted to the local reality of the
Andean areas, and that correspond more closely to their worldview.

The alphabets favour the mental representation of abstract concepts,

while consolidating the logical thinking of those learning a new language
as a second language.

Quechua is still in use

According to the National Census XII of Population and VII of Housing

of 2017 carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Information
(INEI), in Peru, 3 million 735 thousand 682 people speak Quechua,

Quechua is the fourth most spoken language in Latin America and the
most widespread native language on the continent, followed by Guarani
and Aymara. Approximately seven million people speak the language of
the Incas in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
Achahala can be purchased at Librería El Virrey located at 510
Bolognesi Street in Miraflores, Lima Peru.

Dina Vera-Lazaro
Quechua teacher
+51 989 614 423
dinavera64@gmail.com
http://dinavera64.wixsite.com/cultura-quechua