QUECHUA Definition & Meaning

Quechua

[ kech-uh-wah, kech-wuh ]

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noun

plural Quechuas, (especially collectively) Quechua

the language of the Incan civilization, presently spoken by about 8 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
a member of an Indigenous people of Peru speaking Quechua.

adjective

of or relating to the Quechua or their language; Quechuan.

Quechua

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noun

-uas-ua a member of any of a group of South American Indian peoples of the Andes, including the Incas
the language or family of languages spoken by these peoples, possibly distantly related to the Tupï-Guarani family

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Derived Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Quechua¹

First recorded in 1680–90; from Spanish Quechua, Quichua, possibly from Quechua qichwa, qhichwa “temperate valley, people who live in a temperate valley”; possibly from Quechua ��𳦳�ú�ɲ� “robber, plunderer”

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Quechua is the name for a family of Indigenous languages that spread from Peru to other neighboring countries.

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From there the Princess will head to Qoricancha, or “The Golden Temple” in Quechua language, considered the most important - and most sacred - temple by the Incas.

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Richard Tito, another assistant, was the son of rural Andean farmers and spoke only Quechua until he became the first person from his community to go to college.

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Once there, they knelt, praying in Aymara, Quechua as well as Spanish, their eyes tightly closed with hands extended to the heavens.

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Known as “huacas” in the Indigenous Quechua language, those adobe constructions are on top of hills considered sacred places.

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