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- From the year 1450 onwards, with the various conquests of the Inca Empire, the language spread more and more from that point. Quechua was endorsed and promoted by the Incas and declared their official language by the Kings of Cuzco. Eventually, Quechua became Peru’s common language (also known as the Lingua Franca).
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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.
Drawing from classic and recent research on Quechua sociolinguistics and comparatively on current work in the study of World Englishes and English as a lingua franca, we describe ways in which Quechua possibly served as a lingua franca, but also argue that Quechua's role and potential as lingua franca have often been misunderstood.
- Kendall A. King, Nancy H. Hornberger
- 2006
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Classical Quechua is the variety of Quechua that was used as the administrative language and lingua franca in the Inca Empire (1438-1533). It was also known as Inca lingua franca, and is not well-documented as the Incas did not write things down. Classical Quechua also refers to the variety of Quechua used in religious and administrative written ma...
Runa yndio ñiscap machonkuna ñaupa pacha quillcacta yachanman carca chayca hinantin causascancunapas manam canancamapas chincaycuc hinacho canman. Himanam viracochappas sinchi cascanpas canancama ricurin, hinatacmi canman.
Information about Quechua http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechua_languages https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenguas_quechuas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Quechua
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May 23, 2018 · POPULATION: About 7.5 million. LANGUAGE: Quechua. RELIGION: Combination of pre-Columbian and Roman Catholic elements. INTRODUCTION. The Quechua Indians of the central Andes are the direct descendants of the Incas. The Inca Empire, which existed for a century before the arrival of the Spanish, was a highly developed civilization.
the variety of Quechua that was used as a lingua franca and administrative language in the Inca Empire (1438–1533) (henceforward Inca lingua franca). Since the Incas did not have writing, the evidence about the characteristics of this variety is scant and they have been a subject of significant disagreements.
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- Quechuan, Quechua IIQuechua IIBClassical Quechua
In 1975, Peru became the first country to recognize Quechua as one of its official languages. Ecuador conferred official status on the language in its 2006 constitution, and in 2009, Bolivia adopted a new constitution that recognized Quechua and several other indigenous languages as official languages of the country.
And indeed, over multiple centuries in Andean South America, Quechua has served a lingua franca role, that is, as a "language which is used habitually by people whose mother tongues are different in order to facilitate communication between them" (UNESCO, 1951, p. 689).
