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Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi, also Spanish Quichua) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia , as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers. The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo, Imbabura and Cañar Highland Quechua, with most of the speakers.
- Amazonian Kichwas
Amazonian Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi; "runa" = people,...
- Quechua people
Quechua people ( / ˈkɛtʃuə /, [7] [8] US also / ˈkɛtʃwɑː /;...
- Amazonian Kichwas
Quechua ( / ˈkɛtʃuə /, [2] [3] 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.
- 7.2 million
- One of the world's primary language families
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Kichwa is a Northern Quechuan language spoken in southern Ecuador, mainly in Azuay, Cañar, Chimborazo and Morona-Santiago provinces. In 1991 there were about 100,000 speakers of Kichwa. There are many dialects of Kichwa, however there is a standardized language, known as Kichwa Unificado (Shukyachiska Kichwa), which has a unified orthography ...
Kichwa belongs to the Northern Quechua group of Quechua II, according to linguist Alfredo Torero. Kichwa is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (Inga), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers.
Quechua is the most widely-spoken indigenous language in the Americas. Did you know Quechua (also known as Kichwa, Runa Simi, or Runa Shimi) is actually a family of closely-related languages rather than a single language? About 8-10 million people speak Quechua, mostly in the Andean highlands of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and neighboring countries.
