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  2. Quena - Wikipedia

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    The tarka (or tharqa), which also operates like a recorder but is comparatively shorter and quite angular in shape, requires greater breath, and has a darker, more penetrating sound; The moseño (originally mohoseño), is a long, dual-tube bamboo flute with a deep sound. The auxiliary tube acts as an aeroduct. [2]

  3. Tarka (flute) - Wikipedia

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    The tarka (Quechua, Aymara: tharqa) is an indigenous flute of the Andes. Usually made of wood, it has 6 finger holes, fipple on mouth end and free hole on distant end. [1] The tarka is a blockflute, like a recorder, but is comparatively shorter and quite angular in shape, requires greater breath, and has a darker, more penetrating sound.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  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. 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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Cuzco Quechua language - Wikipedia

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    There is debate about whether Cuzco Quechua has five /a, e, i, o, u/ or three vowel phonemes: /a, ɪ, ʊ/. [4] While historically Proto-Quechua clearly had just three vowel phonemes /*a, *ɪ, *ʊ/, and although some other Quechua varieties have an increased number of vowels as a result of phonological vowel length emergence or of monophthongization, the current debate about the Cuzco variety ...