{"id":8232,"date":"2015-08-14T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2015-08-14T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:02:27","slug":"raising-the-status-of-indigenous-languages-the-case-of-quechua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=8232","title":{"rendered":"Raising the status of indigenous languages &#8211; the case of Quechua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.search.yahoo.com\/search?fr=mcafee&amp;type=B211GB105D20130114&amp;p=bbc+quechua\" target=\"_blank\">clip<\/a> yesterday about a 14 year-old Peruvian girl\u00a0who has managed to transform the socially accepted view that Quechua, the\u00a0language of the Incas, is only spoken by the uneducated and indigenous populations. Her version of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;The way you make me feel&#8217; has gone viral on YouTube and has had a particular impact on the way young people in Peru view the language. It reminded me of the things Fitri was sharing with us at the &#8216;Bring it back home&#8217; event about vernacular languages in Indonesia. Also very interesting in terms of the role of technology in these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this clip yesterday about a 14 year-old Peruvian girl\u00a0who has managed to transform the socially accepted view that Quechua, the\u00a0language of the Incas, is only spoken by the uneducated and indigenous populations. Her version of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;The way you make me feel&#8217; has gone viral on YouTube and has had a particular impact on the way [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[164,447,448],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-28M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8233,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}