In Ecuador’s highlands, a seamless mix of Kichwa and Spanish creates a language that bends grammar, adds melody and goes unnoticed by many who speak it every day.
San Roque market in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is one of the main meeting points between Kichwa and Spanish. These languages have long intertwined through exchanges in the city’s markets and public squares.
Though electric machines are now standard, the Venezuelan weaver Margarita Mora has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish practices to create surprisingly modern work.
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