Quechua
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- noun
- /ˈkɛtʃuə/
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quechua
- When relating oral histories, Quechua speakers (Quechua is the major language of the Andes) could use a specific building to remember people, places, or other aspects of an oral history.
- Quechua language
- Quechua and Spanish
Examples
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I knew Cochabamba from earlier experience, having gone there to study Quechua in 1993, and when I returned for extended fieldwork (1994-95), my intent was to study migration to and political organization in the peripheral barrios of the city.
Academic text (2002) -
According to the version of the story recorded in Quechua by Alejandro Ortiz Rescaniere in the central Andes in 1971, "The Inka married Mother Earth."
Academic text (2007) -
"The old woman said something to the girl in Quechua.
Blog text (28) -
Spanish-speaking when they have to be, Indians speak Quechua by choice.
Fiction book (1991) -
Do they speak Quechua?
Fiction book (1995) -
Spanish is the main language, although many indigenous groups are bilingual, with Quechua (a native language) being their preferred language and Spanish their second language.
Academic text (2013) -
A class on the second most widely spoken indigenous language in South America, Quechua, will be offered to undergraduate and graduate students at New York University this fall through the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Spanish Department.
Academic text (2016) -
The long-held belief that Quechua acted as a lingua franca for their empire is now under scholarly scrutiny.
Academic text (2007) -
Andean writer and artist Guaman Poma de Ayala produced a twelve-hundred-page letter to King Philip III of Spain, written in a mixture of Quechua and Spanish.
Academic text (2008) -
In remote villages of the Andes, many people still communicate in Quechua, preserving their ancestral language.
Synonyms
A group of languages first used by the Inca and still spoken in parts of South America
A language or group of related languages spoken by the Quechua people in the Andes
People in the Andes still speak a language first used by the Incas
A native language of the Quechua people in parts of South America, once used by the Inca
A native language in the Andes once used by the Incas and still spoken today
A native people and language group in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quechua comes from the same people's name, written qichwa, and was used for the language of the highland valleys. So Quechua means the language spoken by those Andean people, a living language still used today.