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We want your help to have full repository of audio and text from all South American languages.

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INVESTIGATIONS

Find out what research there is related to the Quechua language or share your research with us.

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PROJECTS

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What do we do?

The mission of Siminchikkunarayku is to preserve and protect languages at risk of extinction, especially languages and to promote the public use of these languages through the creation and/or use of information and communication technologies,especially the development of computational portability.
The vision of Siminchikkunarayku is that all communities of language speakers at risk of extinction, especially the South American languages, have the technological means to support and spread their language.
If we lose our tongues we will lose a great treasure, on the contrary if our tongues flourish they will bring great benefits to the entire Nation, products and services valued at various points of GDP. As if that were not enough, the development of our languages will consolidate national inclusion and cohesion, ensuring sustainable and peaceful human development.

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Peru is a multicultural country, about 10% of the population speak a native language; each color on the map represents a family of languages. Currently 47 indigenous languages still survive, all are in danger of extinction.
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The most impressive results of the computational portability of languages are the personal assistant (as siri) and the voice translator. Developing these tools is our goal.

How do we do it?

We bring together communities, researchers, writers, artists, engineers and universities from all over South America to gather and create the largest multimedia content to computationally process our ancient indigenous languages for the benefit of all.

What inspires us?

“I dream that our language, which represents a cultural richness, always live, that the Latin Americans know and speak, that help us to develop ourselves by valuing our historical roots. ”

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Nelsi Melgarejo Vergara
National University of Callao Tesista

“Build an intercultural country without exclusion nor discrimination, where speakers of native languages have the same opportunities for development in their own language. ”

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Lorenzo Ruiz De La Vega Tenorio
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University Tesista

“To help the millions of Quechua speakers continue to preserve one of the most representative languages of Latin America ”

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Rodolfo Zevallos Salazar
National University of Callao Research associate

“My tradition, my cultural heritage, my family inspired me to develop the proposal that is now the SIMINCHIKKUNARAYKU initiative. I am convinced that we can convert all Peruvians into polyglots.”

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Atuq Kamachikuq
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Principal Investigator

“I am excited to be part of an initiative that seeks to provide access to Quechua speakers to the vast information available in this digital age using our ancestral language and intelligent software.”

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Ronald Ahmed Cárdenas Acosta
Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria Investigador Asociado

“The world needs efficient communication and in record time one of the ways is to introduce all languages to the computational portability.”

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Reynaldo Baquerizo
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Research associate

“Catherine is inspired and highly committed in bridging the digital gap by engaging in collaborations facilitating Civic Tech and ICT for Development, envisioning a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies they build it for.”

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Catherine García
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Research associate


Projects

The creativity of the community helps us to keep growing.

CORPUS QUECHUA

Repository of audio and transcriptions of the Quechua language, available.

QUECHUA TRANSLATOR

The first Quechua language voice translator available to everyone.

PROGRAMAS DE RADIO

The community of radios that transmit their programming in the language Quechua.

QICHWADIC

Quechua multidialectal dictionary in web and mobile version.

DUOLINGO

We will build Quechua courses for speakers of other languages and English and Chinese Mandarin courses for Quechua speakers.

FIREFOX

We support the initiative of Mozilla Nativo.

LIBRE OFFICE QUECHUA

We contribute to the maintenance of word processors.

SIMIDIC

First online Quechua dictionary created by ketanolap.

About us

We are a team with a love for the culture of our communities.

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Nelsi Melgarejo Vergara

Investigadora Asociada

Bachiller en Ingeniería de Sistemas por la Universidad Nacional del Callao. Con capacidad para la investigación e iniciativa en desarrollo de proyectos tecnológicos relacionadas a las lenguas en riesgo de extinción.

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Lorenzo Ruiz De La Vega Tenorio

Tesista

Líder indígena. Comunicador quechua, con inclinación a las relaciones públicas, investigación periodística y académica, redacción y manejo de redes sociales. Egresado de periodismo de la Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Especialista en proyectos de desarrollo social. Apasionado radialista y documentalista, egresado de la Universidad Iberoamericana de México. Traductor y intérprete del quechua sureño (chanka y collao).

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Rodolfo Zevallos Salazar

Investigador Asociado

Investigador dedicado a la investigación científica y al desarrollo de software, fomentando la investigación sobre Inteligencia artificial e innovación de aplicación para el cambio social en el país.

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Atuq Kamachikuq

Investigador Principal

Master en Ingenieria de Telecomunicaciones, Licenciado en Ingenieria Electrónica. Gestor de Proyectos experto en telecomunicaciones rurales, sistemas de información y aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial para el desarrollo humano, especialmente la promoción de idiomas en riesgo de extinción.

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Ronald Ahmed Cárdenas Acosta

Investigador Asociado

Bachiller en Ing Mecatronica por la Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, con experiencia en investigacion en Inteligencia Artificial aplicada a robótica autónoma, visión computacional, radares meteorológicos, texto y voz. Actualmente enfocado en reconocimiento de voz y sistemas inteligentes de pregunta respuesta (Question Answering).

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Catherine García

Investigador Asociado

Juris Doctor in Law and Political Science. Lecturer at the Faculty of Public Management, Law and Security at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Civic Tech and Social Innovation Independent Consultant at Chakana Lab, senior consultant at the Multilateral Diplomacy Program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and accredited expert at the UN- Internet Governance Forum.

Statistics

1 Languages
7 Volunteers
7'800,000 Speakers
1 Corpus Quechua

Noticias

  • Proyecto PUCP busca extender el uso del quechua.

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  • Ganador de la Beca LiFT 2016 Luis Camacho Caballero: Preservando las lenguas de Amazon con Linux

  • ¡El Quechua podrá hablarse en todo el planeta gracias a este proyecto y tú puedes ser parte de él.!

ASR Quechua

La meta de este proyecto es desarrollar un software capaz de convertir locuciones en texto en el idioma Quechua Sureño.
Para conseguirlo se hacen uso de las técnicas mas modernas de inteligencia artificial.

Contactanos

Help us to preserve the most widely spoken native language in Latin America.

Contact information

  • Jr. Sousa 104, Abancay Apurimac - Perú
  • (51)966422108
  • siminchikkunarayku@gmail.com

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