Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz
Appearance
Clodoaldo Soto | |
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Born | Huanta, Ayacucho |
Occupation | Scholar, writer |
Language | Quechua, Spanish |
Nationality | Peruvian |
Genre | Linguistics |
Years active | 1979–present |
Notable works | Manual de Enseñanza Quechua (1979) |
Notable awards | Quechua 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
- ^ "Quechua Prof. Clodoaldo Soto will receive a tribute for his outstanding career". upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=632367&p=4420615
- ^ "Awardees – The Quechua Alliance". thequechua.org. Retrieved 2020-06-09.