Quechua (Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America. It was the language of the Inca Empire, and is today spoken in various dialects by some 10 million people throughout South America, including Peru and Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile. It is the most widely spoken of all American Indian languages.

Quechua is a very regular agglutinative language, with a normal sentence order of SOV (subject-object-verb). Its large number of infixes and suffixes change both the overall significance of words and their subtle shades of meaning, allowing great expressiveness. Notable grammatical features include bipersonal conjugation (verbs agree with both subject and object), evidentiality (indication of the source and veracity of knowledge), a topic particle, and suffixes indicating who benefits from an action and the speaker's attitude toward it.

History

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Today's theories about Quechua's origin put its initial territorial domain in modern Peru's Central Coast, possibly in the ancient city of Caral, around 2600 BC. Inca kings of Cusco made Quechua their official language and, with Inca conquest in the 14th century, the Empire's language became pre-Columbian Peru's lingua franca. By the time of the Spanish conquest, in the 16th century, the language had already spread throughout the Andean region.

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Did u no that "michi" (lk meechee) means "cat" in Quechua? RT @ShrimpSalad: Mish (lk Meeesh)
retrovertigomn (Retro Vertigo) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:14:48 -0000
Did u no that "michi" (lk meechee) means "cat" in Quechua? RT @ShrimpSalad: Mish (lk Meeesh)
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@rppnoticias Sonqo Junt'a Aychapi (Quechua) FELIZ NAVIDAD
jscalderonb (julio calderon ) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:02:37 -0000
@rppnoticias Sonqo Junt'a Aychapi (Quechua) FELIZ NAVIDAD
@addkerberos Sí, obviamente, pero la transformación es notable... (me supongo porque como debes saber yo no sé Quechua :S)
sianaolivo (Siana Olivo) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:51:50 -0000
@addkerberos Sí, obviamente, pero la transformación es notable... (me supongo porque como debes saber yo no sé Quechua :S)
@addkerberos Qué nota que te intereses por el Quechua... pero ¿ese es el Quechua moderno?
sianaolivo (Siana Olivo) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:44:15 -0000
@addkerberos Qué nota que te intereses por el Quechua... pero ¿ese es el Quechua moderno?
Quiero aprender Quechua.. mientras tanto practico algo: "yawar mayu" "puk'tik yawar k'ocha" "yawar wek'e"
addkerberos (लुवुस) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:36:47 -0000
Quiero aprender Quechua.. mientras tanto practico algo: "yawar mayu" "puk'tik yawar k'ocha" "yawar wek'e"

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