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    Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language

    Quechua is still spoken by 8 million people across the Andes, but Roxana Quispe Collantes hopes she can give it added value
    by Dan Collyns Lima Oct 27, 2019 2 minutes
    Roxana Quispe Collantes defends her Peruvian literature thesis in Quechua at the University of San Marcos in Lima on 15 October. Photograph: Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images

    A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in Quechua – the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes.

    Roxana Quispe Collantes received top marks from Lima’s San Marcos.

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