Quichua
- proper noun
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quichua
- Salasaca is a 14-square-kilometer village of approximately 12,000 Quichua-speaking Indians, located south of Quito in the Andean region of Ecuador.
- Quichua speakers
- Quichua communities
- Quichua Indians
Examples
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Most still speak Quichua, and they retain their indigenous clothing and hairstyle rather than adopt mestizo fashions.
Academic text (1994) -
FOIN records are kept in Spanish, and most meetings are conducted in Spanish (often with Quichua as a secondary language).
Academic text (2003) -
Monolingual speakers of Quichua were also denied the right to vote, which required literacy in Spanish.
Academic text (2001) -
Similarly, the yumbos are not purely savage, since they can speak Quichua.
Academic text (1994) -
Most of Otavalo's rural inhabitations live in Quichua-speaking indigenous communities.
Academic text (2001) -
We agreed that the area surrounding Puyo, capital of Pastaza Province, was attractive; the Quichua-speaking indigenous inhabitants were interesting and welcoming to us.
Academic text (1996) -
Furthermore, the 1979 return to democracy combined with the extension of electoral franchise to monolingual Quichua speakers transformed indigenous Otavalenos into prospective voters.
Academic text (2001) -
The name change reflects the federation's effort to construct and legitimize a Quichua (Kichwa) nationality, spatially rooted in ethnic territory.
Academic text (2003) -
The students in the village learned to speak Quichua as part of their cultural education.
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In Ecuador, many traditional stories and songs are passed down in Quichua from one generation to the next.
Synonyms
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The language spoken by the native people of the Andes, once used by the Inca Empire
A native language in the Andes once used by the Incas and still spoken today
People in the Andes still speak a language first used by the Incas
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
A native language of the Quechua people in parts of South America, once used by the Inca
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quichua is the name of an indigenous people and their language in the Andes, coming from qichwa ('valley'); it is also written Quechua or Kichwa in different places. So Quichua refers to the people and the language of the highland valleys of Ecuador and Peru.