Cusco, Aug. 25 (ANDINA). The Ministry of Justice presented Monday morning the first official edition of Peru's bilingual Constitution in Spanish and Quechua languages ("Peru Suyu Atun Kamay Pirwa"), with the aim of creating awareness about people's rights and duties and promoting social inclusion among Peruvians.
In a ceremony held at the Municipality of San Jerónimo in Cusco, the deputy minister of justice, Erasmo Reyna, along with other government authorities presented the Constitution in printed and electronic version.
Noemí Vizcardo, responsible for the translation of the Constitution into Quechua; the regional president of Cusco, Hugo Gonzáles; and the mayor of the San Jerónimo district, Justino Zúñiga, among other local authorities attended this event.
Quechua (Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America. It was already widely spoken across the Central Andes long before the time of the Incas, who established it as the official language of administration for their Empire.
It is still spoken today in various regional forms (the so-called ‘dialects’) by some 10 million people through much of South America, including Peru, south-western and central Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile.
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