#kukama

Kukama Maestro - Siwar Peralta [2020]

Pueblo Originario: Kukama

Territorio: Perú

Idiomas: Kukama, Quechua

Responsable/Dirección: Siwar Peralta

Género: Cortometraje Duración: 6 min.

Año: 2020

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Loreto: La radio que rescata la lengua y cultura Kukama necesita nuestro apoyo

• Radio Ucamara actualmente está en riesgo de cerrar y por ello ha iniciado una campaña para recaudar fondos y mantenerse al aire. Radio Ucamara nació en la ciudad de Nauta (Loreto), con el objetivo de recuperar la lengua y de la cultura Kukama. Este espacio dedicado a la difusión de las actividades de los pueblos indígenas, está ubicado en una zona que ha sufrido el impacto de la actividad…

These two Kukama speakers, who live in the town of Nauta in the Peruvian Amazon, were in Washington, D.C., for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, talking about their "maternal language" and teaching a few words to festival visitors.

Kukama is one of some 3,000 languages that could vanish by the end of the century. It's not hard to understand why. Although there are some 10,000 members of the Kukama people in Peru, only a few hundred, mostly elders, still speak Kukama. Spanish is the country's dominant language, and there's no economic advantage for young people to learn the language of their grandparents.

But the Kukama community in Nauta is making a great effort to keep its mother tongue alive, says Alexia Fawcett, on the staff of the Folklife Festival. And they're taking all the right steps.

To Resurrect A Vanishing Language, Try YouTube and Indiegogo

Kumbarikira urupukira tsa kumbari utsu ukaima kurachi wiri tima tsa katupi tsa kumbarikira urupukira