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Quechua woman with llamas in the Department of Cuzco Girl, wearing indigenous clothing, with llama near Plaza de Armas in Cusco. Quechua people cultivate and eat a variety of foods. They domesticated potatoes, which originated in the region, and cultivated thousands of potato varieties, which are used for food and medicine. Climate change is ...
ñawi-i-wan- mi eye- 1P -with- DIR lika-la-a see- PST - 1 ñawi-i-wan- mi lika-la-a eye-1P-with-DIR see-PST-1 I saw them with my own eyes. -chr(a): Inference and attenuation In Quechuan languages, not specified by the source, the inference morpheme appears as -ch(i), -ch(a), -chr(a). The -chr(a) evidential indicates that the utterance is an inference or form of conjecture. That inference ...
Southern Quechua (Quechua: Urin qichwa, Spanish: quechua sureño), or simply Quechua (Qichwa or Qhichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers.
Quechua may refer to: Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru; Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language Southern Quechua, the most widely spoken Quechua language, with about 6.9 million speakers
Quechua is the most widely spoken indigenous language in South America, used by roughly 10 million people, from Colombia and Peru towards in the north, to Argentina and Chile in the far south.
Quechua has partnerships with groups such as mountain guides, national team of young mountaineers and the Ifremmont Institute of Mountain Medical Research.It works with advisers in hiking (Hélène Rochas, Grégory Vollet, Vincent Delebarre, Dachhiri Sherpa), climbing (David Caude), and adventure racing (Quechua Team).
In the late 1570s, competence in Quechua was made obligatory for priests in Peru in order to ensure effective proselytisation and doctrinal purity, and a Quechua chair was established at Lima's University of San Marcos with the function of not only offering courses in Standard Colonial Quechua, but also conducting examinations that certified ...
Quechua I, also known as Quechua Wáywash, [1] or Quechua B, [2] is one of the two branches or genealogical groups of the Quechua languages. It is composed of a great diversity of linguistic varieties distributed in the mountains of central Peru, in the departments of Ancash , Huánuco , Pasco , Junín and Lima .