Saving an Ancient Language Through Pop Music
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2017
- Renata Flores is a 16-year-old singer from Peru who is using her voice to save an ancient language. Though Quechua is the second-most spoken language in Peru, native speakers have suffered from discrimination and social stigma for generations, and today, many young people aren’t learning the language at all. But with her powerful vocals to covers of pop songs by Michael Jackson and Alicia Keys in her native tongue, Flores is sparking a renewed celebration of Quechuan language and culture.
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its amazing that shes putting a foot forward in preserving her culture and trying to reduce the negative stigma around speaking a beautiful language
maura tiara but isn't language just a medium of information? Any other language would do just as good a job. I believe that what you say should matter more in all conditions than in which language you say it.
Arpan languages do not match up on a one-for-one basis, since they do not all have words for everything. Every language has words that don't have an equivalent in other languages. This is just one reason that preserving languages is important.
Not all languages have evolved to described modern scientific subjects and other modern cultural things today. So no, not all languages will do just a good job as others.
Example Most native south american languages dont have vocabulary for most of the modern stuff we have today, because of that they simply adopt foreign words.
Sora it is far from dead as of now, half of the country speaks it. Language is one of the most important parts of a native culture, and it's sad that people are trying to throw away and forget their culture and native language because they were brought up believing it is for the low-class and something to be ashamed to speak. Her message in this seems to be one of accepting her Quechua heritage, and encouraging other Peruvians, especially young kids to embrace it too. It would be sad to see a beautiful language die because of negativity and stereotypes, when it otherwise would have likely continued to flourish and be engrained in Peruvian and South American culture.
i totally agree with you maura
It sounds like such a beautiful language. I hope it thrives in the next generation
we need young people like this
her voice is so beautiful!
I grew up here in the states, but both my parents are from Uruguay. But I love seeing when people preserve their culture, especially the part of a culture that stems from an indigenous background and even more so when the one(s) trying to preserve the culture is the youth. I love learning about culture and preserving it, so it always saddens me when the youth doesn't care about cultural preservation. Kudos to this girl, I hope her music has a positive influence on preserving the language.
This is actually pretty cool. My dads peruvian so he speaks a little quechua but he mostly learned it from his parents
I tried translating an English song to Nauhatl for my senior project and I couldn't find anything that was similar to the meaning I'm glad she's preserving her culture we all should
Renata has an amazing voice and her covers are amazing. Quechua is also greatly spoken in Bolivia but has the same stigmas and it's dificult for young people to engage interest in it, even after the goverment made it mandatory to learn native languages.
Personally, I am intrested in learnig the language out if curiosity and because its necesary in my work area (and most work areas in Bolivia). Even so, I HAAAATE LEARNING IT BECAUSE ITS SO GODDAMN HAAARD so the way Renata is teaching it seems ideal, its fun and simple.
Drea Guzman thats cool both my mom and dad are from Bolivia and P.S. we have the same last name
languaje aymara is what bolivian speak..
We can't let these beautiful languages die out!
I take off my hat to her. It's really inspiring to see people as the same age as me being so outstanding and trying to make alive a language I considered dead years ago. Sadly, Quechua is sees badly even in the places where it was from and only very old people know how to speak. Besides that, because it's spoken differently deppending where you live it's so difficult to learn it as a second language. I wish one day being capable of understand it...
Amazing
Aaah, I strongly admire Inca culture and Quechua as the remnant of this wonderful civilisation of the past. I always was so sad that lots of native cultures of America are dying today, and even Quechua, the biggest native language of both Americas having bad times now. How wonderful that people like this lady still caring about their legacy and popularasing it :)
Que lindo!!!! Sigue adelante hijita y sigue Educando a la gente...en especial en el Perú
this is great. still. there is that ‘My Mere Existence as a Musician Is Activism’ video.
this is amazing my parents are from Bolivia and my dad grew up in Peru and my grandma knows quechua and I would love to learn it some day
cool
Renata, tengo una hija con una quechua. Orgulloso soy ser papá de tan noble gente. Yo'ium keshki
This is creative!
Hey awesome video
Whoa O - O
My mother language is spanish and I kept reading the english subtitles almost till the end of the video where I realized it was spanish.
Love it
Very Cool!!
AMAZIGH LANGUAGE ♡★♥
it makes me cry to think that there's someone who care about their dying laguage. 😢
It's cool the native Americans of south America speak cool languages like the Quechua, chibcha, Arawak, Taino and more
!Excelente!
Sorprendente y admirable
That video she talks about now has almost 2 million views!
It's interesting that the entire interview with her is in Spanish and not Quechua.
She doesn’t speak it, but she is trying to learn it, she is taking classes to recuperate what she lost. And the ones who speak it do have the news in Quechua , and other stuff like that don’t let clueless people tell you it’s extinct or spoken by very few people. The president Rafael Correa from Ecuador had to learn northern Quechua to win the elections, to favor the native speaker’s vote. Too many wanna claim that it’s dead when it’s not. Nukabash runashimita rimani, ashtakata gintikuna yachan kay shimi. Before any Peruvian corrects me I speak northern Quechua from Ecuador also known as kichwa, it’s a little different but I can understand a bit of Peru Quechua. It’s like comparing Portuguese and Spanish, very similar.
Here is a link of Rafael Correa’s speech rally to win the elections ruclips.net/video/I2-3p6oNOlk/видео.html
Here is another politician commercial trying to get people to vote Correa ruclips.net/video/_HEXMy9Xep0/видео.html
And here is the news in Peru ruclips.net/video/atlpe54GoSI/видео.html alive and well. If Israel can bring back a dead language like Hebrew, why not Quechua spoken by 15 million speakers?
fragolegirl2002 is kichwa from the mountains the same as kichwa spoken in the jungle?
Chills
*_VIVA PERU CARAJO!!!_*
Onde aprender quéchua ?
I speak Spanish fluently and still read the subtitles lol
this is not Spanish,Spanish is a western European tongue or language, Quechua. Aymara are native south American languages related to those cultures and ethnicity, is Quechua, a native language of Inca civilization who today is spoken by millions of south Americans native people who share that ancestry, this language is disappearing by the globalist and colonialist and neocolonialist western and local agendas who put above all the teaching of Spanish and English like important languages .....
:o
ogm ur first
0:42 the same goes to all indigenous languages in Latin America and of course North America
My mom is from peru but she dont know this language
16 year old girl preventing the heritage of an entire culture from extinction while you are snapping some dog-faces and flower crowns to get laied at the next party
word! but bro 'laied' --
I don't know quechua
man i thought she would sing in nauhatl, now thats a dead language!
Diego Caballero that's two different cultures
i know that theyre two different cultures and that Peru was an Inca country but still, I'd like to see more people speaking nauhatl, because in Peru quechua is the second most spoken language but in Mexico nauhatl is spoken by less than 1% of the population and I would just like to see more people speaking it because I think it's a very interesting tounge
THERMOSPEX i didnt know that she lived in peru, how is that so hard to grasp.
THERMOSPEX i even said that " i thought"
Actually i didnt
I speak English, Spanish , French, but nope I can't Quechua.
🍌 👌🗿
There are many ways to preserve your culture. ONE OF THEM IS STOP SHIFTING UR LANGUAGE BY SPEAKING ENGLISH
thank you spanish people. thank you so much.
For what
look at those adidas superstars
just give me the knowledge of the language and I'll save it. people don't like listening to music they DO NOT UNDERSTAND especially it's like an American listening to a Russian or spanish or a song in zulu or even korean, they won't know what it means
finally a native that isnt a wannabe Latin(a European people) and speaking a Spanish( a European language).
@Hyperborean Colonialism
"finally a native that isnt a wannabe Latin(a European people) and speaking a Spanish( a European language)."
Take your filthy racism elsewhere.
How is that racist if its true? 99% of the people in central and south america are mostly native genetically, yet they celebrate their white conquerors and rapist, speaking their language and calling themselves Latin....They have no pride.
BTW i'm Italian aka the original historical direct descendants of the Latin people who founded ROME.
Hyperborean Colonialism "Btw I'm Italian the original descendants of the Latin people."
LOL what do you want, a medal? Take your lasagne and skedaddle.
Edit: BTW no offense to lasagne. I love me some lasagne.
Other Poeple come join the conversation and sing with me:
SAVE THE LASAGNE !
ya'll sound triggered by my facts. awww
first of all that already a thing so yeah? You havent been exposed to it yet
fifth
Idioma Ketchup? que guay hahaha
XD
start by removing that nose ring
Rick C-134 wubba lubba dub dub
Me too
Rick C-134 wanna get schwifty ? Can't wait for episode 2
Lets get schwifty bird person
In bird culture this is considered a dick move.
nobel prize???
Disliked because its too snowflaky.
...what does that even mean?
Novem Ber ugh you're the only special snowflake memeboy here who wants to draw attention to themselves by this negative comment. i bet you don't even have a real culture or identity.