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Nina Pacari Vega
Nina Pacari (Kichwa ''nina'' "fire", ''paqariy'' "to appear, dawn"), born as María Estela Vega Conejo (born 9 October 1961 in Cotacachi (city), Cotacachi, Imbabura Province, Imbabura) is a Quechuas, Kichwa politician, lawyer and indigenous people, indigenous leader from Ecuador. Biography Nina Pacari studied jurisprudence at the Universidad Central del Ecuador, Central University of Ecuador in Quito, where she got to know other indigenous students and began to fight for indigenous rights and the defense of the Kichwa language. At the age of 24, she changed her Spanish name officially to the Kichwa ''Nina Pacari''. Nina Pacari worked as a lawyer for the ''Federación de los pueblos Kichwa de la Sierra Norte del Ecuador'' (FICI), an organization in Imbabura which is now a member of ECUARUNARI. After that, she supported Kichwa communities as a lawyer in the Chimborazo Province. In 1989, she became a legal adviser of the indigenous confederation CONAIE, founded in 1986. In the upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kichwa
Kichwa (, , also Spanish ) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (''Inga''), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers. The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo, Imbabura and Cañar Highland Quechua, with most of the speakers. Kichwa belongs to the Northern Quechua group of Quechua II, according to linguist Alfredo Torero. Overview Kichwa syntax has undergone some grammatical simplification compared to Southern Quechua, perhaps because of partial creolization with the pre-Inca languages of Ecuador. A standardized language, with a unified orthography (, ), has been developed. It is similar to Chimborazo but lacks some of the phonological peculiarities of that dialect. The earliest grammatical description of Kichwa was written in the 17th century by Jesuit priest Hernando de Alcocer. First efforts for language standardization and bilingual education According to linguist Arturo Muyulema, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |