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  2. Bible translations into Native South American languages

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    The Catechism and the Doctrina christiana were published in 1584, shortly after Spanish conquest, in a version in Quechua and Aymara approved by the Council of Lima (Ciudad de los Reyes) in 1583, [7] but attempts to translate the Bible into these languages were suppressed by the Spanish authorities and the Catholic Church. [8]

  3. Indigenous languages of South America - Wikipedia

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    The composition is very frequent, just like in the rest of the world, although it is a rare procedure in Chonan languages that are highly isolating. Nominal incorporation in the verb is also frequent in America. As for the classical morphological types, among the agglutinating languages, Quechua, Pano-Tacanan languages, or Mapuche are found.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. Help:IPA/Quechua - Wikipedia

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    like spat but with a restriction of air q: q qam, nuqa similar to scat but deeper in the throat ɢ ~ χ-q (syllable ending) paqta, aqllay qʰ ~ χ: qh qhapaq similar to cat but deeper in the throat qʼ: q' q'isa similar to the /q/ sound but with a restriction of air ɾ: r runtu, yawar: atom in American English s: s sunqu, wasi son ʃ: sh mishi ...

  6. Classical Quechua - Wikipedia

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    It originates from a Proto-Quechua phoneme reconstructed as /ʃ/, [126] [127] but there is some explicit testimony that Standard Colonial Quechua did not have a [ʃ] sound resembling the Spanish pronunciation of the grapheme x at the time; instead, the /ʂ/ was identified with the Spanish pronunciation of s, but not of z and c. [128]

  7. Quechua people - Wikipedia

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    Quechua woman with llamas in the Department of Cuzco Girl, wearing indigenous clothing, with llama near Plaza de Armas in Cusco. Quechua people cultivate and eat a variety of foods. They domesticated potatoes, which originated in the region, and cultivated thousands of potato varieties, which are used for food and medicine. Climate change is ...

  8. Southern Quechua - Wikipedia

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    Southern Quechua (Quechua: Urin qichwa, Spanish: quechua sureño), 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.

  9. Kichwa language - Wikipedia

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    https://quechuarealwords.byu.edu/ Quechua Real Words is a video dictionary of Amazonian Kichwa ideophones (performative, imitative utterances) constructed by Professor Janis Nuckolls of BYU. Imbabura Quechua Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)