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Quechuan languages
- Quechuan languages, the languages of the former Inca Empire in South America and the principal native languages of the central Andes today.
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Quechuan languages, the languages of the former Inca Empire in South America and the principal native languages of the central Andes today. According to archaeological and historical evidence, the original languages were probably spoken in a small area in the southern Peruvian highlands until about.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
As a result, various Quechua languages are still widely spoken today, being co-official in many regions and the most spoken language lineage in Peru, after Spanish. History. Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the Inca Empire.
May 11, 2024 · Quechua, South American Indians living in the Andean highlands from Ecuador to Bolivia. They speak many regional varieties of Quechua, which was the language of the Inca empire (though it predates the Inca) and which later became the lingua franca of the Spanish and Indians throughout the Andes.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Quechua was the language of the Inca Empire. Today it is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas, with over 13 million speakers in the Andean republics of South America, an area extending from southern Colombia to northern Argentina and Chile (and including Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador).
Quechua is an Amerind language with about 8 million native speakers who live primarily in the Andes mountains of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina. It was the official language of the Inca Empire, who used a system of knotted strings known as quipu to send messages.
Some of the most important languages were Quechua, Aymara, Puquina and Mochica, respectively mainly spoken in the Central Andes, the Altiplano or , the south coast , and the area of the north coast (Chinchaysuyu) around Chan Chan, today Trujillo.
Sep 6, 1999 · Quechua is a language that has been spoken in the Andes region of South America since before the days of the Inca Empire. Speakers of this ancient Andean language can be found in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, as well as Argentina. As with many of the Central and South American languages, it’s origin is relatively unknown.
