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Quechua
Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **Southern Quechua, the most widely spoken Quechua language, with about 6.9 million speakers ** North Bolivian Quechua, a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in northern Bolivia **South Bolivian Quechua, a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Bolivia and in northern Argentina Other uses * Quechua (brand), a French sporting goods brand *Quechua (geography), a natural region of Peru * ''Quechua'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Orchidaceae *Quechua alphabet, orthography based on the Latin alphabet to write Quechua languages * Quechua Wikipedia, a language edition of Wikipedia See also * Quecha (other) *Kʼicheʼ language *Qʼeqchiʼ language The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or Kekchí, is one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechuan Languages
Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" language, it is today the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with the number of speakers estimated at 8–10 million speakers in 2004,Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. and just under 7 million from the most recent census data available up to 2011. Approximately 13.9% (3.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechua language. Although Quechua began expanding many centuries before the Incas, that previous expansion also meant that it was the primary language family within the Inca Empire. The Spanish also tolerated its use until the Peruvian struggle for independence in the 1780s. As a result, various Quechua languages are still widely spoken today, being co-official in many regions and the most spoken language in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Quechua
Southern Quechua (, ), or simply Quechua (Qichwa or Qhichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers. Besides Guaraní it is the only indigenous language of America with more than 5 million speakers. The term ''Southern Quechua'' refers to the Quechuan varieties spoken in regions of the Andes south of a line roughly east–west between the cities of Huancayo and Huancavelica in central Peru. It includes the Quechua varieties spoken in the regions of Ayacucho, Cusco and Puno in Peru, in much of Bolivia and parts of north-west Argentina. The most widely spoken varieties are Cusco, Ayacucho, Puno (Collao), and South Bolivian. In the traditional classification of the Quechua language family by Alfredo Torero, Southern Quechua is equivalent to Torero's 'Quechua c' (or just 'Qc'). It thus stands in contrast to its many sister varieties within the wider Quec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua People
Quechua people (, ; ) , Quichua people or Kichwa people may refer to any of the Indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru. Although most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, there are some significant populations in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina. The most common Quechua dialect is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa language, Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa. The Quechua word for a Quechua speaker is ''runa'' or ''nuna'' ("person"); the plural is ''runakuna'' or ''nunakuna'' ("people"). "Quechua speakers call themselves Runa -- simply translated, "the people". Some historical Quechua people are: * The Chanka people lived in the Huancavelica Region, Huancavelica, Ayacucho Region, Ayacucho, and Apurímac Region, Apurímac regions of Peru. * The Huanca people of the Junín Region of Peru spoke Quechua before the Incas did. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Bolivian Quechua
South Bolivian Quechua, also known as Central Bolivian Quechua, is a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Bolivia and adjacent areas of Argentina, where it is also known as ''Colla''. It is not to be confused with North Bolivian Quechua, which is spoken on the northern Andean slopes of Bolivia and is phonologically distinct from the South Bolivian variety. Estimates of the number of speakers of South Bolivian Quechua range from 2.3Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010"Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn."Paris, UNESCO Publishing. Online version." to 2.8 million,"Bolivia" at '''' (17th ed., 2013) making it the most spoken [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua (brand)
Quechua (, or ; ) is the trademarked French brand for the hiking and camping apparel and equipment marketed mostly by French company Decathlon. Created as a brand in 1997 in Domancy, France, by a group of nine Decathlon employees, the group launched its first products in the spring of 1998 in all Decathlon stores, geared toward hikers and campers. The brand's design center is in Sallanches, near Mont Blanc. Its name derives from the indigenous Quechua people of the Andes and their language. Timeline * 1997: The Quechua company started in Sallanches. The trademark was registered officially, worldwide. * 1999: Opening of the International Headquarters in Domancy, near Mont Blanc. * 2002: The first Technical Partnership contracts were signed. * 2003: The six-year-old Quechua company joined the top 10 largest global brands in mountain gear. Publication of the first consumer magazine, covering mountain topics, called ''Chullanka'' ('snowed summit' in the Quechua language). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua Alphabet
The Quechua alphabet () is based on the Latin alphabet. It is used to write the Quechuan languages. The Quechua alphabet has been use in Peru since 1975, following the Officialization of Quechua by Decree Law in May 1975 that made Quechua co-equal with Spanish. History As far as is known, there was no writing system in the Andes before the Spaniards' Conquest, so that it seems that Quechua languages were first written in some version of the Latin alphabet. Quechua language colonial orthography was an adaptation and of Golden Age Spanish typographic conventions. For example, the 5 Latin vowel characters, well-suited for Spanish 5-vowel phoneme system, were used for writing Quechua vowel sounds in a phonologically hyperdifferentiating manner. On addition, labial–velar approximant phoneme was variably transcribed as . Main points in that evolution were Third Lima Ecclesiastical Council orthography and Diego Gonzalez Holguin orthography. The latter used doubled letters to signal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Bolivian Quechua
North Bolivian Quechua is a dialect of the Southern Quechua Southern Quechua (, ), or simply Quechua (Qichwa or Qhichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers. Besides Guaraní it ... language, spoken in northern Bolivia on the Peruvian border, as well as by immigrants in Peru. References Languages of Peru Southern Quechua {{na-lang-stub Languages of Bolivia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua (plant)
''Quechua glabrescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native Native may refer to: People * '' Jus sanguinis'', nationality by blood * '' Jus soli'', nationality by location of birth * Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory ** Nat ... to Peru. It was first described by in 1971 as ''Spiranthes glabrescens''. , it is the only species in the genus ''Quecha''. References Spiranthinae Flora of Peru Plants described in 1971 {{Orchidoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free content, free multilingualism, multilingual open source, open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia open collaboration, edited and maintained by a Wikipedia community, community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English Wikipedia, English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions followed in the same year: the German Wikipedia, German and Catalan Wikipedia, Catalan editions were created on 16 March, the French Wikipedia, French edition was created on 23 March, and the Swedish Wikipedia, Swedish edition was created on 23 May. As of , Wikipedia articles have been created in editions, with currently active and closed. The Meta-Wiki language committee manages policies on creating new Wikimedia Foundation#Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia projects. To be eligible, a language must have a valid ISO 639 code, be "sufficiently unique", and have a "sufficient number of fluent users". Variations in editions Wikipedia projects vary in how they di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quecha (other)
Quecha may refer to two different groups of Native American peoples and languages: * Quechan, people who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Arizona and California ** Quechan language, language of the Quechan people * Quechua people of South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina ** Quechuan languages Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" ..., family of languages spoken by the Quechua peoples See also * Quechua (other) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua (geography)
Quechua is one of the eight Life_zones_of_Peru#Javier Pulgar Vidal's version, Natural Regions of Peru and is between 2,300 and 3,500 m above sea level. It is composed of big valleys divided by rivers fed by estival rains. Its flora includes Alnus acuminata, Andean alder, gongapa, and arracacha. People who live in this region, cultivate Maize, corn, Squash (fruit), squash, passionflower, passionfruit, papaya, wheat, and peach. Notable fauna include birds like the ''chihuanco'' or white-necked thrush.Pulgar Vidal, Javier: Geografía del Perú; Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú. Edit. Universo S.A., Lima 1979. First Edition (his dissertation of 1940): Las ocho regiones naturales del Perú, Boletín del Museo de historia natural „Javier Prado“, n° especial, Lima, 1941, 17, pp. 145-161. Overview Andean Continental Divide Mountain Top: * Mountain passes - 4,100 m * Puna grassland * Andean-alpine desert * Snow line - about 5,000 m * Janca - Rocks, Snow and Ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kʼicheʼ Language
Kʼicheʼ ( ; natively , also known as among its speakers), or Quiché, is a Mayan language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people of the central highlands in Guatemala and Mexico. With over a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), Kʼicheʼ is the second most widely-spoken language in the country, after Spanish language, Spanish. It is one of the most widely-spoken Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous American languages in Mesoamerica. The Central dialect is the most commonly used in media and education. Despite a low literacy rate, Kʼicheʼ is increasingly taught in schools and used on the radio. The most famous work in the Classical Kʼicheʼ language is the ''Popol Vuh'' (''Popol Wuʼuj'' in modern spelling). The second most important work is ''Título de Totonicapán, The Title of Totonicapán.'' Dialects Kaufman (1970) divides the Kʼicheʼ complex into the following five dialects, with the representative municipalities given as well (quoted in Par S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
