Quechua

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Quechua is an indigenous language family of the central Andes, historically associated with the Inca Empire and still widely spoken across several South American countries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Andean language
indigenous language
language family
alternativeName Runasimi
surface form: Runa Simi

Runasimi
culturalRegion Andean civilization
estimatedSpeakers over 7 million
geographicRegion Andes
Andes
surface form: Central Andes
hasDialect Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ancash Quechua

Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ayacucho Quechua

Bolivian Quechua
Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cusco Quechua

Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Imbabura Quechua

Kichwa
hasFeature evidentiality
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural
suffixing morphology
three-vowel system
hasLoanwordsIn Spanish
historicallyAssociatedWith Inca Empire
influencedLanguage Spanish in the Andes
iso639-2Code que
iso639-5Code que
languageBranch Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Quechua I

Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Quechua II
languageFamily Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Quechuan languages

Quechumaran (proposed)
languageFamilyCode qwe
languageStatus official language in Bolivia
official language in Peru
recognized language in Ecuador
morphologicalType agglutinative language
primaryWordOrder SOV
spokenIn Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
subgroup Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Quechua

Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northern Quechua

Quechua self-linksurface differs
surface form: Southern Quechua
usedAs lingua franca of the Inca Empire
usedIn Andean oral literature
Andean ritual practices
traditional Andean music
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin script

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Andean languages hasMajorLanguage Quechua
this entity surface form: Central Quechua
Andean languages hasMajorLanguage Quechua
this entity surface form: Northern Quechua
Amazonian Kichwa subclassOf Quechua
this entity surface form: Quechua II languages
Amazonian Kichwa isDistinctFrom Quechua
this entity surface form: Southern Quechua
Quechuan hasPart Quechua
Quechuan hasPart Quechua
this entity surface form: Southern Quechua
Quechuan hasPart Quechua
this entity surface form: Central Quechua
Quechuan hasPart Quechua
this entity surface form: Northern Quechua
Quechuan languageFamilyOf Quechua
this entity surface form: Quechua language
Quechuan hasNotableLanguage Quechua
this entity surface form: Southern Quechua
western Bolivia hasLanguage Quechua
Pikillaqta nameLanguage Quechua
Department of Linguistics focusesOnLanguage Quechua
subject surface form: Department of Linguistics, University of Chile
Saraguros mainLanguage Quechua
this entity surface form: Quichua
ayahuasca hasEtymology Quechua
subject surface form: Ayahuasca
this entity surface form: Quechua language
Colca Canyon languageRegion Quechua
Pisac indigenousLanguage Quechua
Canas Province majorLanguage Quechua
Anta Province languageSpoken Quechua
this entity surface form: Southern Quechua
Urubamba languageUsed Quechua
Andean music language Quechua
Mama Killa languageName Quechua
Killa Island (variant spellings) hasLanguageContext Quechua
subject surface form: Killa Island
Guayna Capac ethnicGroup Quechua
subject surface form: Huayna Capac
Guayna Capac languageSpoken Quechua
subject surface form: Huayna Capac
Ampato volcano languageOfName Quechua
subject surface form: Ampato