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Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez
BornLimitryu Tupaq Yupanki
(1923-12-22)22 December 1923
Cuzco, Peru
Died3 May 2018(2018-05-03) (aged 94)
Lima, Peru
Alma materNational University of San Marcos
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Known forTranslate Don Quijote to Quechua
Scientific career
FieldsQuechua language

Limitryu Tupaq Yupanki (Spanish Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez) (22 December 1923 – 3 May 2018) was a Peruvian Quechua language professor (or more accurate Southern Quechua), a translator from Castilian to Quechua and journalist.

He went to Lima, where he studied Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and then Law at the National University of San Marcos. 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 was finally published with the name Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Qvixote Manchamantan

In 2008, his work The Quechua Course was translated into Russian by A. Skromnitsky. He died on May 3, 2018.

References

  1. Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui: "Si el quechua se aprende de pequeño queda para toda la vida" Archived 18 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  2. Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui: "Nunca me avergoncé de llevar mi apellido" (in Spanish)
  3. Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui: "No tendremos esencia si no sabemos quechua" (in Spanish)
  4. Muere a los 94 años Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui, traductor a quechua del Quijote (in Spanish)
  5. Descanse en paz, amauta. Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui falleció a los 94 años Archived 4 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

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