ahaali!
kunay pacha LIMA peru
Taksha Zonjo zua |
Quechua (Runa Simi) is a family of related Native American languages in South America, with approximately 46 dialects, grouped in at least seven languages.
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Tukuy suwan, llapanmi suwa nin. Llakita mallispaqa manañan mikuytaqa munanichu. Pisin p’unchau llank’ay munaqpaqqa. Allinta Uyariyta yachaspaqa, allintataqmi yachanki. Khuyakuyqa yachaypaqmi, mana yachaspaqa usuchiwaqmi. Wañuymi aswan allin, qonqorchaki kausaytaqa. http://www.andes.org/phrases.html These are a few Quechua expressions: allillanchu ("ah-yee-YAN-choo")—how are you?; allinmi ("ah-YEEN-me")—I'm fine; maymantam ("my-MON-tom")—where are you from?; imatam sutiyki ("ee-MAH-tom soo-TEE-kee")—what is your name? The English word "jerky" comes from the Quechua word for dried meat, charki, and the Spanish coca plant, which is the source of cocaine, gets its name from the Quechua word kuka. A smaller number of Peru's indigenous highlanders, probably about half a million, speak Aymará, the language of a tribe conquered by the Incas. Also, in the rainforests of eastern Peru the 40 or so tribes speak a number of ancient tribal languages >>> http://www.native-languages.org/quechua.htm http://www.socialwellbeing.org/language.htm
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Some variety was already widely spoken across the Central Andes as a lingua franca among curacas long before the time of the Incas, who established it as the official language of administration for their Empire. Quechuan languages are still spoken today in various regional forms (the so-called ‘dialects’) by some 10 million people (known as the Quechua) through much of South America, including most extensively and numerously in Peru 
