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At this time, the Inca ruled over 12 million people who spoke about 30 different languages. The Inca demanded that conquered people who didn’t speak Quechua, like the Chanka who spoke...
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Still, Native Alaskan languages remained the dominant languages spoken in Alaska. It was only after American colonization when missionary, and later General Agent of Education of the Territory of Alaska, Sheldon Jackson, arrived in Alaska in 1877, did the use of native Alaska languages start to plummet. Jackson implemented an "English Only ...
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Jan 9, 2020 · The well-known Nahuatl language of the Aztecs and the Quechua language of the Incas were only two of perhaps 1,500 individual languages once spoken across the Americas, but none of them had ever been definitively linked to languages in Eurasia or elsewhere. Until now. “It was totally random”
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. The number of knots and the colors of the strings were the key to ...
Sep 6, 1999 · Quechua originated in the coast and from there it spread to the southern Andean regions a few centuries before the Inca even formed their large empire. One piece of evidence for this hypothesis is the fact that scholars attribute the Huáihuash dialect to be the oldest variety of Quechua still spoken today.
Diverse Quechua regional dialects and languages had already developed in different areas, influenced by local languages, before the Inca Empire expanded and further promoted Quechua as the official language of the Empire.
We will try to answer some: What language did the Incas speak? At this point it is a bit obvious, but yes, the Inca language was Quechua. However, as an additional fact, we can tell you that Quechua was not always the “official” language of the Incas; they spoke Puquina and Aymara at first. Is Quechua a written language?
