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Quechua (Kechua / Runa Simi) The Quechuan languages are spoken in mainly in Peru, and also in Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina. They belong to the Quechuan language family, and have a total of about 7.7. million speakers. In Ecuador varities of Quechua are known as Quichua.
Sep 6, 2021 · An Introduction To Quechua, One Of The World’s Most Widely Spoken Indigenous Languages. Quechua is a macrolanguage with more than 10 million speakers in seven Latin American countries: Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Peru. By Adriana Jiménez. September 6, 2021.
Quechua ( / ˈkɛtʃuə /, Spanish: [ ˈketʃwa] ), also called Runasimi ("people's language") in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
Today, the Quechuan languages are spoken by approximately 7.5 million speakers in the following countries (in order of number of speakers): Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Colombia. The Aymaran languages, also referred to in the literature as Aru (speech) or Jaqi (human being), are spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers in Bolivia ...
General introduction to the language (origins, history, social position, dialects, etc.), detailed information for linguists on sound system (phonetics, phonology) and grammatical system (agglutinating morphology, syntax). How and where to learn Quechua; detailed Quechua bibliography; Quechua links page; radio in Quechua.
Quechua , usually called Runasimi in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Quechua was the main language family of the Inca Empire.
Besides Guaraní it is the only indigenous language of America with more than 5 million speakers. The term Southern Quechua refers to the Quechuan varieties spoken in regions of the Andes south of a line roughly east–west between the cities of Huancayo and Huancavelica in central Peru.
