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7 unusual facts about quechua


América Televisión

While the station carried both the 1970 and 1978 World Cups, in which the Peruvian national team was highly competitive, and the station added a news program in Quechua in the early 1970s (before its revival as an official language of the country), a major change came about when the military government of the time expropriated 51% of the shares in the station.

Cañari

The contrast of thinking that its origin come from the Quechua dialect is that the presence does not extend past the provinces of Canar and Azuay, while the Kichwa is present outside these .

During the Inca conquest, the Canaris learned Quechua ( Kichwa ), but, as always, the language of the conquering people was enriched with many vernacular words taken from the language of the conquered people, so the names of certain objects or places such as rivers, mountains, etc.

Ceque system

The Ceque (Quechua; also zeq'e) system was a series of ritual pathways leading outward from Cuzco into the rest of the Inca Empire.

Chayahuita language

Can not be understood by Jebero speakers, although there is some overlap in vocabulary, especially certain Quechua terms.

Cucayo

In Ecuador, cucayo is the name given to food items meant for travel, derived from 'kkókkau' in Quechua.

Ipiales

It communicates with the interior by the Pan American Highway, which continues along the Ecuadorian population Tulcán, after crossing the International Bridge Rumichaca, language Quechua means "stone bridge" over the river Carchi in Narino territory called Guaytara (blue river) to 800 meters, from the viewpoint of Ipiales.


1616 in art

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Quechua noble man known for illustrating a chronicle of the native peoples of the Andes (born 1535)

Andean Spanish

It is influenced principally by Castilian, Canarian and Andalusian Spanish, which is favoured in the cities, while in rural areas and some cities, there is influence of Quechua, Aymara, and other indigenous languages.

Antonio Sinchi Roca Inka

Antonio Sinchi Roca Inka (17th century), was a Quechua painter from Peru and part of the Cuzco School.

Black-crowned Night Heron

In the Falkland Islands, the bird is called "quark", which is an onomatopoeia similar to its name in many other languages, like "kwak" in Dutch and Frisian, "kvakoš noční" in Czech, "квак" in Ukrainian, "кваква" in Russian, "Vạc" in Vietnamese, "Kowak-malam" in Indonesian, and "Waqwa" in Quechua.

Bolivian literature

Nearly half of Bolivia's population speaks indigenous languages such as Quechua, Aymara or Guarani.

Chachapoyas Quechua

Chachapoyas or Amazonas Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken in the provinces of Chachapoyas and Luya in the Peruvian region of Amazonas.

Chuño

The word comes from Quechua ch'uñu, meaning frozen potato (wrinkled in the dialects of the Junín Region).

Chuno

Chuño, a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Peru and Bolivia

Demographics of Bolivia

The Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani languages, as well as 34 other native languages are the official language of Bolivia.

El Agrado

Nor is there any documentation that describes its habitat, customs, and specific characteristics of the group Chimbayaco (across the river, Quechua).

Ethnography of Argentina

The local natives that speak Quechua adopted that language by the teachings of the Spanish religious missionaries that came from Peru to today's Santiago del Estero Province; the language is quickly losing importance.

Eustaquio Méndez Province

The principal language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 99.7%, while 1.7% of the population speak Quechua, 0.2 speak Aymara, and 0.1% Guaraní.

Gran Chaco Province

Main language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 98.4%, while 11.5% of the population speak Quechua, 3.0 speak Aymara, and 2.7% Guaraní.

History of Bolivian nationality

One example is that the major urban centers were situated in the midst of the Aymara and Quechua communities, which were two of the more influential indigenous groups.

Intercultural bilingual education

The first education programs without the explicit goal of hispanisation were developed in the 1960s, among them a pilot program of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in a Quechua-speaking area in the Quinua District (Ayacucho Region, Peru).

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Monboddo studied languages of peoples colonised by Europeans, including those of the Carib, Eskimo, Huron, Algonquian, Peruvian (Quechua?) and Tahitian peoples.

Jo Fraser

Following her BP Travel Award win, Jo spent two months in Peru, within an indigenous community of Quechua weavers in the small, mountainous village of Patacancha.

Juan Pérez Bocanegra

Bocanegra and the Jesuits also disputed how to use Andahuaylillas; the Jesuits wished to make his parish a Quechua-language training center similar to the Aymara one they had established in Juli.

Lamas Quechua

Lamas or San Martín Quechua (Lamista, Llakwash Runashimi) is a variety of Quechua spoken in the provinces of Lamas in the Peruvian region of San Martin and in some villages on the river Huallaga in the region of Ucayali.

Los Andes no creen en Dios

The film is loosely based on the 1974 novel Los Andes no creen en Dios by Adolfo Costa du Rels and two short stories by the same author, La Misk'isimi (Sweet Lips in Quechua) and Plata del diablo (The Devil's Silver).

Lowland Peruvian Quechua

Chachapoyas Quechua, or Amazonas Quechua, spoken in the provinces of Chachapoyas and Luya in the region of Amazonas by some 7,000 people

Lamas Quechua, or San Martín Quechua (Lamista, Llakwash Runashimi), spoken in the province of Lamas in the region of San Martin and in some villages on the Huallaga River in the region of Ucayali by some 15,000 people

Macul

Macul (Quechua: "to stretch out right hand") is a commune (smallest administrative subdivision in Chile) of Chile located in the central-eastern part of the Greater Santiago area, bordered by the communes of Ñuñoa to the north, San Joaquín to the west, Peñalolén to the east and La Florida to the south.

Martha Hildebrandt

In August 2006, she criticized two congresswomen from Cusco, Hilaria Supa and María Sumire, for being sworn in before Congress in their native language Quechua on July 25, 2006.

Mollepata District, Santiago de Chuco

Mollepata or Mullipata (Quechua mulli Peruvian pepper tree pata elevated place / edge, bank (of a river), shore) is one of eight districts of the province Santiago de Chuco in Peru.

Muyurqa Lake

"twisted", hispanicized spelling Mueurca, erroneously also Mucurca, Mururca), complete Quechua name Muyurqa Qucha, "twisted lake", is a lake in Peru located in the Arequipa Region, Caylloma Province, Cabanaconde District.

Pacaraos Quechua

Pacaraos Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken until the middle of the 20th century in the community of Pacaraos (Pacaraos District) in the Peruvian Lima Region in the Chancay valley up to 3000 m above sea level.

Phaqcha Mayu

Phaqcha Mayu (Quechua phaqcha waterfall, mayu river, "waterfall river"), also spelled Pajcha Mayu, is a Bolivian river in the Cochabamba Department, Arani Province, Vacas Municipality and in the Carrasco Province, Pocona Municipality.

Puka Pampa River

Puka Pampa River (Quechua puka red, pampa plain, "red plain", hispanicized spelling Puca Pampa) is a Bolivian river in the Chuquisaca Department, Sud Cinti Province, Culpina Municipality.

Pukaqucha

Pukaqucha (Quechua puka red, qucha lake, hispanicized spelling Pucacocha) is a lake in Peru located in the Lima Region, Huarochiri Province, Huanza District.

Pukara

Pukara (Aymara and Quechua for "fortress", hispanicized spellings pucara, pucará) is a ruin of the fortifications made by the natives of the central Andean cultures (that is to say: from Ecuador to the Central Valley of Chile and the Argentine Northwest) and particularly to those of the Inca.

Q'ero

Q'ero (spelled Q'iru in the official 3-vowel Quechua orthography) is a Quechua community or ethnic group in the province of Paucartambo, in the Cusco Region of Peru.

Qunchamarka

Qunchamarka (Quechua, hispanicized spelling Conchamarca, Conchamarka, Qonchamarca, regionally also spelled 'Qonchamarka') is an archaeological site in Peru located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District, southwest of the mountain Runkuraqay.

Sabaya Province

The main language in the province is Spanish, spoken by 92%, while 67% of the population speak Aymara and 9% Quechua.

Takanakuy

Takanakuy ("when the blood is boiling" in the Quechua language) is an annual established practice of fighting fellow community members held on 25 December, by the inhabitants of Chumbivilcas Province, near Cuzco in Peru.

Tomas Barrón Province

Main language of the province is Spanish, spoken by 87%, while 82% of the population speak Aymara and 8% Quechua (1992).

Wasa Mayu

Wasa Mayu (Quechua wasa the human back or the back of an animal, mayu river, "back river" hispanicized spelling Huasa Mayu) is a Bolivian river in the Cochabamba Department, Tiraque Province, Tiraque Municipality and in the Carrasco Province.

Willkamayu

Willkamayu (Quechua, hispanicized spelling Huyllcamayo) is a river in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, Victor Fajardo Province, Huancapi District.

Yaru Quechua

Yaru Quechua is a dialect cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Peruvian province of Pasco and neighboring areas in northern Junín and Lima department.

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a dialect cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Yauyos and Chincha districts of Peru.


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