16 Facts About Quechua language

Quechua language had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the Inca Empire.

The oldest written records of the Quechua language are by missionary Domingo de Santo Tomas, who arrived in Peru in 1538 and learned the Quechua language from 1540.

Quechua language published his Grammatica o arte de la lengua general de los indios de los reynos del Peru in 1560.

In recent years, Quechua language has been introduced in intercultural bilingual education in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Quechua language includes Chachapoyas and Lamas in North Peruvian Quechua so Ecuadorian is synonymous with Northern Quechua.

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Quechua language I is spoken in Peru's central highlands, from the Ancash Region to Huancayo.

Quechua language has borrowed a large number of Spanish words, such as piru, bwenu, iskwila, waka and wuru .

In Bolivian Quechua language, -ri is added to verbs to signify an action is performed with affection or, in the imperative, as a rough equivalent to "please".

Description below applies to Cusco Quechua language; there are significant differences in other varieties of Quechua language.

Quechua language has been written using the Roman alphabet since the Spanish conquest of Peru.

However, written Quechua is rarely used by Quechua speakers due to limited amounts of printed material in the language.

Until the 20th century, Quechua language was written with a Spanish-based orthography, for example Inca, Huayna Capac, Collasuyo, Mama Ocllo, Viracocha, quipu, tambo, condor.

All varieties of Quechua are very regular agglutinative languages, as opposed to isolating or fusional ones [Thompson].

Quechua language adds the suffix -kuna to the second and third person singular pronouns qam and pay to create the plural forms, qam-kuna and pay-kuna.

The question marker in Wanka Quechua language, -chun, is derived from the negative –chu marker and the direct evidential .

For example, Quechua poems thought to date from Inca times are preserved as quotations within some Spanish-language chronicles dealing with the pre-Conquest period.