In Ecuador, this richness is expressed through a wide plurality of Indigenous languages which, despite their cultural value, face an increasing risk of disappearance. The loss of a language implies ...

Penn State students who already speak Spanish didn’t get off easy either. Donely said they took Kichwa classed, which is the most common indigenous language in Ecuador.

Spanish, Spanglish, Quechua, Kichwa: Jeff Herlihy-Mera encounters all of them on the trip from Guayaquil to Cuenca.

Elsa Caín-Yuquilema, a member of the Kichwa Puruhá ethnic group from Ecuador and a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at MSU from 2024 to 2025. | Photo by Erick Diaz Veliz For Elsa ...

NAPO, Ecuador — Gloria Ushigua, president of the Sápara women’s association, stops by a large, thin, spindly tree that looks almost dead, and breaks off a thin branch. Running her fingers ...