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Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz

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Clodoaldo Soto
File:Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz.jpg
BornHuanta, Ayacucho
OccupationScholar, writer
LanguageQuechua, Spanish
NationalityPeruvian
GenreLinguistics
Years active1979–present
Notable worksManual de Enseñanza Quechua (1979)
Notable awardsQuechua Award for Lifetime Achievement

Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz is a Peruvian scholar, author and former Quechua professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Education and Career

He taught Quechua for more than 25 years at the University of Illinois. He published dictionaries, a grammar book on Ayacucho Quechua, articles, and his pedagogical Quechua manual which is widely used by many students and teachers around the world.[1]

During his time at the University of Illinois he also published Correo de Lingüística Andina, an annual newsletter on Quechua instruction.[2]

Awards and honors

In 2015 Soto Ruiz received the Quechua Award for Lifetime Achievement by The Quechua Alliance.[3]

Works

  • Gramática quechua: Ayacucho-Chanca
  • Quechua, manual de enseñanza
  • Diccionario quechua
  • Diccionario quechua, Ayacucho-Chanca
  • Gramática quechua
  • Quechua. Manual de enseñanza (2010) ISBN 978-9972-51-273-5
  • ¿Chaymantaqá? ¿Y después? Quechua avanzado. Quechua: manual de enseñanza (2016)

References