It took almost three years before the full Congress unanimously approved (88 votes) a measure to the Law for the Preservation and Use of Indigenous Languages \u200b\u200bof Peru.
The charge of supporting the ruling was the president of the Commission of Andean Elizabeth León who stated that the law will benefit more six million Peruvians who speak their mother tongue is Quechua, Aymara and Amazonian languages.
Congresswoman Leon, in a gesture that enhances ceded his time to supporting Congresswoman Maria Sumire Cusco as the author of Bill 806 which gave rise to the Law on Preservation and Use of Indigenous Languages. Legislator Quechua
said that the new law is in conformity with the position of the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, which has recognized that the written or spoken language of a people is its greatest attribute cultural and thus linguistic diversity is an asset valuable human.
The opinion seeks to facilitate the application of Article 48 of the Constitution of Peru, stating that the official languages \u200b\u200bare Castilian and, as areas where predominant use, so are the Quechua and Aymara and other indigenous languages. He added that Peru is a multilingual country where the native languages, not being valued, are reduced to family and domestic use.
"In the absence of a standard to ensure or safeguard your use in public areas is restricted to persons the right to use their language," concluded the parliamentary Sumire who dedicated it to the people of Law ancient Cuzco, once Jubilee celebration of Inti Raymi, as well as the Quechua and Aymara and the native communities of the Convention and the Amazon in general.
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