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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 ...
Nevertheless, in the 21st century, Quechua language speakers number roughly 7 million people across South America, [9] more than any other indigenous language family in the Americas. As a result of Inca expansion into Central Chile , there were bilingual Quechua- Mapudungu Mapuche in Central Chile at the time of the Spanish arrival .
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 Inca Empire, [a] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [4]), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [5] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early ...
Quechua people in Conchucos District, Peru. Anthropological and genetic evidence indicates that most of the original population of the Americas descended from migrants from North Asia who entered North America across the Bering Strait in at least three separate waves.
The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl, which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers. After pre-Columbian times, several Indigenous creole languages developed in the Americas, based on European, Indigenous ...
The Qulla (Quechuan for south, [5] Hispanicized and mixed spellings: Colla, Kolla) are an Indigenous people of western Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina living in west of Jujuy, and west of Salta Province. The 2004 Complementary Indigenous Survey reported 53,019 Qulla households living in Argentina. [4] They moved freely between the borders of ...
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...