Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua

High Academy of the Quechua Language
Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua
Qheswa Simi Hamut'ana Kuraq Suntur
Qhichwa Simi Hamut'ana Kuraq Suntur
AbbreviationAMLQ
Location
  • Cusco
Formerly called
Peruvian Academy of the Quechua Language

The High Academy of the Quechua Language (Spanish: Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua; Quechua: Qheswa Simi Hamut'ana Kuraq Suntur/Qhichwa Simi Hamut'ana Kuraq Suntur), or AMLQ, is a Peruvian organization whose purpose is stated as the teaching, promotion, and dissemination of the Quechua language.

Although the institution has subsidiary associations in different regions of Peru and in several cities around the world, it mainly operates in the department of Cuzco. Its publications and Quechua as a second language courses also specialize in the Cuzco dialect. The institution is controversial because of its particularist linguistic ideologies and its defense of a 5-vowel alphabet. There is no consensus about whether the organization is a private or a public institution.[1]