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like spat but with a restriction of air q: q qam, nuqa similar to scat but deeper in the throat ɢ ~ χ-q (syllable ending) paqta, aqllay qʰ ~ χ: qh qhapaq similar to cat but deeper in the throat qʼ: q' q'isa similar to the /q/ sound but with a restriction of air ɾ: r runtu, yawar: atom in American English s: s sunqu, wasi son ʃ: sh mishi ...
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 ...
In Bolivia, the same standard is used except for "j", which is used instead of "h" for the sound [h] (like in Spanish). Sound examples for words pata, phata p'ata. The following letters are used for the inherited Quechua vocabulary and for loanwords from Aymara:
It originates from a Proto-Quechua phoneme reconstructed as /ʃ/, [126] [127] but there is some explicit testimony that Standard Colonial Quechua did not have a [ʃ] sound resembling the Spanish pronunciation of the grapheme x at the time; instead, the /ʂ/ was identified with the Spanish pronunciation of s, but not of z and c. [128]
https://quechuarealwords.byu.edu/ Quechua Real Words is a video dictionary of Amazonian Kichwa ideophones (performative, imitative utterances) constructed by Professor Janis Nuckolls of BYU. Imbabura Quechua Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
"The most primordial sound of the Andes is the voice, and the voice goes hand in hand with the language," he said, "Quechua is what is going to define me and my sound." Quechua is the most widely ...
As Spanish does not have uvular [q], traditional spellings lose this distinction (although sometimes a double cc was used to represent the k-like sounds of Quechua that differed from the "plain k" sound known in Spanish; e.g., in place names such as Ccarhuacc, Chopcca, Cconocc, Llacce, Manyacc, Chihuilluyocc, Chilcahuaycco, etc.), and Quechua ...
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