In 2005, in the Centre of Ibero-American Studies (SIAS), at Charles University in Prague, V. Hingarová offered for the first time a specialized course on Indigenous languages. Next year she added the course “Introduction to Nahuatl”. In same time, V. Rataj was giving classes of Quechua at Masaryk University in Brno. Great interest in Indigenous languages led the two then PhD students to create the project “Indigenous Languages in Mesoamerica and Peru”, which was supported by the Grant Agency of Charles University in 2007–2009. The goal of the project was to establish cientific interest in Indigenous languages in the Czech republic by means of the following activities:
- offer courses on Amerindian linguistics, including courses of Nahuatl and Quechua
- obtain specialized materials for the library of the Centre of Ibero-American Studies
- create didactic materials for offered courses
- present the results of investigation on Nahuatl and Quechua at international conferencies
Currently, the researchers are working on a publication about Quechua (in Czech).
V. Rataj is teaching the course “Quechua for Linguists” in the Department of General Linguistics at Charles university, which is, unlike the previously offered course, focused on the grammar of Quechua
Courses on Indigenous languages at Charles University
| Place | Course | Year |
|---|---|---|
| FF UK | Quechua for Linguists (V. Rataj) annotation in SIS | Spring 2020 |
| FF UK | Quechua for Linguists (V. Rataj) | Autumn 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018 |
| FF UK | Quechua I. (V. Rataj) | Autumn 2010 |
| FF UK | Quechua I.–II. (V. Rataj) | 2009/2010 |
| FF UK | Contemporaneous Indigenous Languages (V. Hingarová & V. Rataj) abstract | Autumn 2009 |
| FF UK | Nahuatl I.–II. (V. Hingarová) abstract | 2008/2009 |
| FF UK | Indigenous Languages in Latin America (V. Hingarová) abstract | Autumn 2008 |
| FF UK | Quechua I.–IV. (V. Rataj) | 2007–2009 |
| FF UK | Nahuatl I.–II. (V. Hingarová) abstract | 2006/2007 |
Works of students of previous courses – see the section Resources Other activities of the researchers are listed in the Czech version