Limitryu Tupaq Yupanki (

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''Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez'') (22 December 1923 – 3 May 2018) was a

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vian

Quechua language Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from ...

professor (or more accurate

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), a translator from Castilian to Quechua and journalist. He went to

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, where he studied Philosophy at the

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, and then Law at the

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. He worked in the newspaper ''La Prensa'', and began teaching Quechua. Subsequently, he opened his own academy, Yachay Wasi. He also taught in the United States. In November 2005, thanks to his work, the Quechua translation of the Spanish classic ''

Don Quixote de la Mancha , the full title being ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'', is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and is of ...

'' was finally published with the name ''Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Qvixote Manchamantan'' In 2008, his work The Quechua Course was translated into

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by A. Skromnitsky. He died on May 3, 2018.Descanse en paz, amauta. Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui falleció a los 94 años

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* ''El Quijote en quechua'' in web ttp://clubdetraductoresliterariosdebaires.blogspot.pe/2015/07/el-quijote-en-quechua.html Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires.* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tupac, Demetrio 1923 births 2018 deaths People from Cusco Peruvian philosophers 20th-century Peruvian lawyers Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni National University of San Marcos alumni Quechua-language writers Peruvian translators Translators to Quechua 20th-century translators Translators of Don Quixote