Although Quechua began expanding many centuries before [4] [5] [6] [11] [7] 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.

Quechuan languages, the languages of the former Inca Empire in South America and the principal native languages of the central Andes today. According to archaeological and historical evidence, the original languages were probably spoken in a small area in the southern Peruvian highlands until about 1450; after that their geographical range was ...

The Language of the Incas was the Quechua or Runasimi (people’s language), the native language. Although the Inca Empire dominated a huge territory and had many provinces with different ethnic groups with their own languages, Quechua was the official language; once a province was conquered, the king sent teachers called Amautas to teach the ...

1999年9月6日 · Quechua is a language that has been spoken in the Andes region of South America since before the days of the Inca Empire. Speakers of this ancient Andean language can be found in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, as well as Argentina.

2022年3月25日 · The Quechua language of the Inca Empire is Peru’s most widely spoken native language. It’s an official language of the country and one seen as the people’s language. Many people use it as an everyday language in rural areas. You’ll most likely find it in the southern and central highlands of Peru where the majority of native speakers ...

Somewhere between 8 and 10 million individuals throughout the Central Andes region of South America currently use Quechua as their primary language, and it is the most widely spoken family language of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

2024年12月20日 · Quechua, South American Indians living in the Andean highlands from Ecuador to Bolivia. They speak many regional varieties of Quechua, which was the language of the Inca empire (though it predates the Inca) and which later became the lingua franca of the Spanish and Indians throughout the Andes.

2022年3月28日 · The Inca rulers made Quechua the official language of Cusco when the city became their administrative and religious capital early in the 1400s. When the Inca civilisation expanded further into current-day Peru in the fifteenth century, Quechua became the lingua franca (a commonly spoken language among people not sharing the same first language ...

2020年3月9日 · Commonly referred to as Runasimi (“language of the people”), Quechua was the patrimonial language of the Inca people. Nowadays, the Quechua language is scarcely heard in larger cities in Peru, though linguists and native speakers have been developing intercultural and bilingual education programs…

Quechua was the language of the Inca Empire. Today it is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas, with over 13 million speakers in the Andean republics of South America, an area extending from southern Colombia to northern Argentina and …