Quechua

Examples

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• In Peru, many Quechua individuals continue to practice ancestral farming techniques passed down through generations.

• Beneath it, the Quechua point out the dark image of a baby llama, which looks as if it is nursing.

  Academic text (1991)

• Two-thirds of its population is rural and Quechua-speaking.

  Academic text (2017)

• The Vilcanota runs from the southeast to the northwest, and to the Quechua, it is the terrestrial branch of the river in the sky.

  Academic text (1991)

• There is a photograph of Quechua and Aymara miners in Bolivia who reaffirm their identity through the Diablo dance.

  Academic text (2006)

• I was blissfully unaware that less than two years earlier it had been the scene of an uprising by Quechua-speaking peasant farmers against the local landowners.

  Academic text (2002)

• The Quechua people play a significant role in preserving the history and heritage of the Inca civilization.

Synonyms

I

Incan

vsQuechua

1 7.9

A person from the Inca people who lived near Cuzco in Peru

focuses on the Indigenous group who later served as the empire's ruling class

K

Kechua

vsQuechua

9.9

A person from a native people in Peru who was once part of the Inca ruling class

is the same group but written with an alternative common spelling

I

Inca

vsQuechua

5.6

A person who lived in the empire that ruled Peru before the Spanish came

refers specifically to the Indigenous people who formed that ruling class

Q

Quichua

vsQuechua

9.9

A native people and language group in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru

is the Peruvian group that served as the empire's ruling class, not a language group

Compounds

Q

Quechua language

8.5

People in the Andes still speak a language first used by the Incas

Surface Forms

Etymology