Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Armed With a Pen, and Ready to Save the Incas' Mother Tongue. “SOMEWHERE in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago.” Simple enough, right? But not for Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui. Instead, he regales visitors to his home here in this gritty port city on Lima's edge with his Quechua version of the opening words of “Don Quixote”: “Huh k'iti, la Mancha llahta suyupin, mana yuyarina markapin, yaqa kay watakuna kama, huh axllasqa wiraqucha.”