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Quechua
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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Quech·ua / ˈkechwə/ (also Quech·a / ˈkechə/ , Quich·ua) • n. (pl. same or Quech·uas) 1. a member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador.
2. the language or group of languages of this people.
• adj. of or relating to this people or their language.
DERIVATIVES: Quech·uan / -wən/ (also Quech·an / ˈkechən/ ) adj. & n.
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Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...dialects of "Southern Peruvian Quechua" (37). How Cuzco Quechua became associated with the origins...elevated socially above other Quechuas was the result of a long process...propagation of "Standard Colonial Quechua," a standardized version of...
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Particularidades foneticas del quechua Yaru-Huanuco.
Magazine article from: Investigaciones sociales; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Ancash-Huaylas and Yaru-Huanuco (Quechua I, studied by our friend and most...sobre Hablas, Dialectos y Lenguas Quechuas. Vena escaso de fondos para transporte...parte medular de su libro El quechua y la historia social andina (Torero...
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Semantic transparency in Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua morphosyntax(1).
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the properties of Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua, a possibly pidginized variety from...transparency for the possibly pidginized Quechua of the Amazonian lowlands of eastern Ecuador, Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua (LEQ). This variety has been described...
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Peru: life of the Quechua: up in the Andes, daily existence is a struggle for young people.(World)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 2/26/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Inescapable Poverty Luis and his family are Quechua (KECH-wuh), an indigenous (native) people of the Andes. The Quechua occupy an area that stretches from Ecuador...conquered them in the 15th century. The Quechua language even survived conquest by the...
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Pichka Harawikuna: Five Quechua Poets.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1999; 700+ words
; Pichka Harawikuna: Five Quechua Poets. Julio Noriega Bernuy, ed...produced trilingual (Spanish, English, Quechua) version of an anthology that Julio...the seemingly redundant title Poesia quechua escrita en el Peru (1993). In fact...
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MEDIA-ARGENTINA: QUECHUA LANGUAGE TAKES TO THE AIRWAVES
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 5/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...that broadcasts in both Spanish and the Quechua language, as part of a plan that includes...provide a channel for broadcasting in the Quechua language, Angel Strapazón...coordinators of MOCASE, explained to IPS. Quechua was the official language of the Inca...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Google it in Quechua; Peru.(Peru's language rebellion)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...Inca capital in Peru. She also speaks Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, which...Spanish because her neighbours all speak Quechua. But that doesn't go for other members...translators. Estimates of the prevalence of Quechua vary widely. In Peru, there are thought...
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Indian languages -- and politicians -- gain in S. America; Peru's legislature hears something new: Quechua
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/3/2007; ; 562 words
; ...congresswoman insists on speaking in her native Quechua. In doing so, Supa says, she hopes...discriminated against in Peru. "When we speak in Quechua they say it's rude because they don...There are an estimated 10 to 13 million Quechua speakers in South America, most of them...
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 "Américas (Spanish Edition)")
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Quechua/indios.
Magazine article from: Américas (Spanish Edition); 5/1/2007; ; 642 words
; ...ejemplar de diciembre de 2006, se refieren a los quechuas: nunca existi una persona quechua. Quechua es el lenguaje utilizado por los incas (mis...escrito fonticamente. Los incas hablaban quechua pero nunca lo escribieron. Sal Salinas Hawthorne...
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The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...subtracting, multiplying and dividing in the Quechua dialects of his sources. Odds and evens...yielding ten offspring, five of each sex. Quechua, like English, has a rigorously decimal...lather Twelve' (expressed in a base-10 Quechua lexeme). Seven was not always a 'rascally...
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Quechua
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Quechua PRONUNCIATION: KECH-wah LOCATION: Peru...POPULATION: About 7.5 million LANGUAGE: Quechua language RELIGION: Combination of pre...beliefs 1 • INTRODUCTION The Quechua Indians of the central Andes are the direct...
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Bolivia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...with three cultural traditions: (1) Quechua/ Aymara (roughly 34 percent and 23 percent...highlands) and corresponding to the two (Quechua- and Aymara-speaking) traditions that...predominantly rural, with most of its Quechua- and Aymara-speaking peasants living...
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Bolivians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...POPULATION: 7 million LANGUAGE: Spanish; Quechua; Aymara RELIGION: Roman Catholicism...percent are Amerindians who speak mainly Quechua or Aymara as well as Spanish. The others...Spanish, although many Indians speak either Quechua (the language spoken originally by the...
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Peruvians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...24.5 million LANGUAGE: Spanish; Quechua RELIGION: Roman Catholicism, intertwined...percent; indigenous South American Indian (Quechua and Aymara, for example), 45 percent; and black and Asian, 3 percent. The Quechua and Aymara constitute the two main South...
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Peru
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...864 Language(s): Spanish (official),Quechua (official),Aymara Literacy rate: 88.7...considered indigenous, and many of these spoke Quechua or Aymara. Both Spanish and Quechua were the official languages, although newspapers...
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