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Quechuan languages
Quechua (/ˈkɛtʃuə/,[2][3] US also /ˈkɛtʃwɑː/;[4] Spanish: [ˈketʃwa]), usually called
Quechuan
Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language
family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes and
Kechua / Runa Simi
highlands of South America.[5] Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most Ethnicity Quechua
widely spoken language family of indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of Geographic Throughout the central Andes
probably some 8–10 million speakers.[6] Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians distribution Mountains including Argentina,
speak a Quechuan language.[7][8] It is perhaps most widely known for being the main Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,
language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish colonisers initially encouraged its use, Peru, Chile.
but from the middle of their reign they suppressed it. However, Quechua ultimately
Linguistic One of the world's primary
survived and variants are still widely spoken today.
classification language families
Subdivisions Quechua I
Quechua II
Contents
ISO 639-1 qu
History
ISO 639-5 qwe
Current status
Number of speakers Glottolog quec1387 (http://glottolog.org/

Classification resource/languoid/id/quec1387)[1]
Family tree
Geographical distribution
Cognates
Quechua and Aymara
Vocabulary
Etymology of Quechua
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Stress
Orthography
Grammar
Morphological type
Pronouns
Adjectives
Numbers
Nouns
Adverbs
Verbs
Grammatical particles
Evidentiality
Map showing the distribution of Quechua I
-m(i) : Direct evidence and commitment[39]
(yellow) and Quechua II (turquoise) languages
-chr(a) : Inference and attenuation[42]
-sh(i) : Hearsay[44]
Affix or clitic
Position in the sentence
Changes in meaning and other uses
Inferential evidential, -chr(a)
Hearsay evidential, -sh(i)
Omission and overuse of evidential affixes
Cultural aspect

Literature
Media
In popular culture
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