19 Facts About Quechua languages

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

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

Quechua languages is the indigenous language that has influenced Chilean Spanish the most.

Major obstacle to the usage and teaching of Quechuan languages is the lack of written materials, such as books, newspapers, software, and magazines.

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

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

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

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

In Bolivian Quechua languages, -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 languages; there are significant differences in other varieties of Quechua languages.

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

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

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

Quechua languages is an agglutinating language, meaning that words are built up from basic roots followed by several suffixes, each of which carry one meaning.

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

Quechua languages 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.

Evidentials in the Quechuan languages are "second position enclitics", which usually attach to the first constituent in the sentence, as shown in this example.

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

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