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Preferred term

queQuechua  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Quechua (endonym: Runa Simi) is a Native South American language family and dialect cluster spoken primarily in the Andes of South America, derived from an original common ancestor language, Proto-Quechua. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably some 8 to 10 million speakers (estimates vary widely). At the time of the conquest, the Incans referred to their language as "runasimi", only later to be mistakenly called quechua by conquistadors. Many contemporary Andean Quechua speakers still call it "runasimi" (or regional variants thereof), literally "people speech", although "runa" here has the more specific sense of "indigenous Andean" people.

Entry terms

  • Quechua languages
  • Quechuan
  • Quechuan (family)
  • Quechuan languages

ISO 639-1 code

  • qu

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • que

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • que

ISO 639-3 code

  • que

ISO 639-5 code

  • qwe

Notation

  • que

In other languages

  • Quechua

    French

  • quechua
  • quechua (famille)
  • Quechua

    German

  • quechua

    Italian

  • Lingue quechua
  • quíchua

    Portuguese

  • Quíchua
  • quechua

    Spanish

  • Lenguas quechuas

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/que

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