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Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui

Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui

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Limitryu Tupaq Yupanki (Spanish Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez) (22 December 1923 – 3 May 2018) was a Peruvian Quechua language professor (or more accurate Southern Quechua), a translator from Castilian to Quechua[1] and journalist.

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He went to Lima, where he studied Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and then Law at the National University of San Marcos.[2] He worked in the newspaper La Prensa, and began teaching Quechua. Subsequently, he opened his own academy, Yachay Wasi. He also taught in the United States.[3]

In November 2005, thanks to his work, the Quechua translation of the Spanish classic Don Quixote de la Mancha was finally published with the name Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Qvixote Manchamantan[4]

In 2008, his work The Quechua Course was translated into Russian by A. Skromnitsky. He died on May 3, 2018.[5]


References

  • eltiempo.com: Peruano Túpac Yupanqui logró que Microsoft lanzara sistema operativo de Windows traducido al quechua
  • El Quijote en quechua in web Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires.
  • "Деметрио Тупак Юпанки. Учебник языка кечуа - языка потомков Инков". bloknot.info. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  • Philip Jacobs. "Runasimipi Llaqta Takikuna (Willka Takiy)". runasimi.de. Retrieved 18 May 2018.

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