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Quechua people (/ ˈkɛtʃuə /, [8][9] US also / ˈkɛtʃwɑː /; [10] Spanish: [ˈketʃwa]) , 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 ...
Ñusta, which roughly translates to "princess" in the Quechua language, is a term for a highly noble or upper-class woman of Inca or Andean birth. Inca noblewomen were essentially part of the Inca Empire also called "Tawantinsuyu" where they spoke the traditional Inca spoken language "Quechua." [1] Ñustas were not full descendants of Inca royalty.
Y. Yarlequé. Categories: Quechuan languages. Surnames by language. Surnames of Native American origin. Surnames of Peruvian origin. Surnames of South American origin.
María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, more commonly known by her Quechua name of “Mama Antula,” was born in 1730 into a wealthy family in Santiago del Estero, a province north of Buenos Aires.
The Indigenous peoples of Peru or Native Peruvians (Spanish: Peruanos Nativos) comprise a large number of ethnic groups who inhabit territory in present-day Peru. Indigenous cultures developed here for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532. In 2017, 5,500,000 Peruvians identified themselves as indigenous peoples and ...
Her name Q'orianka means "Golden Eagle" in Quechua. Her father is of Quechua–Huachipaeri background from Peru, while her mother, Saskia Kilcher, is an American human rights activist of Swiss-German origin. When Kilcher was two, she and her mother moved to Kapaʻa, Hawaii where her brother Kainoa was born.
Cuxirimay Ocllo (Classical Quechua: Kuši Rimay Uqllu) (born before 1532–d. after 1576), also known as Doña Angelina Yupanqui, was a princess and consort of the Inca Empire by marriage to her cousin, the Sapa Inca Atahualpa (r. 1532–1533).
The name Kichwa-Lamista derives from the element Kichwa, which is the name given to the Quechuan language spoken in Amazonia, [4] and lamista, a Spanish adjective referring to the city of Lamas. The spellings Quechua-Lamista and Kichua-Lamista also exist, with the group themselves preferring spellings which employ k. [5]