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- Quechua, along with Aymara and minor indigenous languages, remains essentially a spoken language.
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Quechua, along with Aymara and minor indigenous languages, remains essentially a spoken language . In recent years, Quechua has been introduced in intercultural bilingual education (IBE) in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Even in these areas, the governments are reaching only a part of the Quechua-speaking populations.
- Quechua. Quechua is spoken by an estimated six to eight million speakers across the Andean region, making it the most spoken language in South America. Citizens of the Incan empire communicated primarily in Quechua, and its predominance in the region even meant that Spanish colonists accepted it as a tool to communicate with the native population.
- Mayan. Six million people speak Mayan across Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, but there are about 30 different dialects. They may be from the same language family, but for the most part, those who speak one dialect of Mayan cannot understand those who speak another.
- Guaraní. An anomaly on the list, Guaraní is the only indigenous language in South America that is spoken by non-indigenous people as a native language. Its predominance in Paraguay is related to the death of 70% of the male population in the 1870 Paraguayan war, and President Carlos Antonio Lopez realized he had to bridge the divide between the indigenous and Spanish-descended population to ensure the country’s survival.
- Aymara. Aymara, which is spoken in Peru and Bolivia by nearly an estimated 2.5 million people, has many similarities to Quechua, but linguistics studies have proved that is likely to be from recent lexical borrowings rather than a shared heritage.
Allegedly dating back as far as 2600 BC, several centuries prior to the settling of the Incas, Quechua staggeringly remains a fundamental language in present-day Peru and, most notably, in the remote, yet still reasonably well-populated, Andean regions.
Aymara-Quechua languages are, collectively, the most widely spoken of all indigenous languages in South America. The Quichua are also the only indigenous people to have migrated both southward, along the ridges and valleys of the Andes Mountains, and eastward into the Amazon Rainforest.
This disrupted traditional Quechua and Aymara culture based on communal ownership, but ayllus has been retained up to the present time in remote regions, such as in the Peruvian Quechua community of Q'ero.
The Aymara language (along with Quechua) is now an official language in Bolivia, and there has been a rise of programs to assist the Aymara and their native lands. Puerta del Sol, Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Linguists have learned that Aymara was once spoken much further north, at least as far north as the central parts of Peru.
Apr 4, 2022 · Today, the Quechua language remains the primary language of approximately 14 percent of Peruvians, spoken by roughly 4.5 million Peruvians. Many of these speakers are monolingual, speaking only Quechua and not Spanish. [5]
