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noun
1A member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador.
- ‘Above all, the ‘rule of law’ means the accusations that we, the Quechuas, Aymaras and Guaranties of Bolivia keep hearing from our governments: that we are narcos, that we are anarchists.’
- ‘Perhaps the most distinctive dress in the Andean region is worn by the Otavalo Indians, a subgroup of the Quechuas of Peru.’
- ‘Other tribes populating the area included the Incas in the northwest, the Charrúas in the east, and the Quechuas, Tehuelches, and Huarpes in the central and western regions.’
- ‘The largest ethnic groups are the highland Indians - the Aymara and the Quechua.’
- ‘In 1572, the Spanish prohibited the Quechua from wearing native Inca tunics and wrap-around dresses.’
- ‘He wrote seminal papers on topics as diverse as colonial architecture in the Caribbean, the Quechua in the colonial world, and the design and space of Maya architecture, to name but a few.’
- ‘The word ‘Pisco’ comes from the Andean language Quechua and refers to the clay pots that the Quechua store their spirits in.’
- ‘For more than 500 years we, the Quechuas, Aymaras and Guaranis, the Indians who are native to this noble land, have been subject to slavery.’
- ‘Her current research examines land use, economic activities, and demographic patterns of the Huaorani, Cofa, Shuar, Quichua, and Secoya of Ecuador.’
- ‘It was like that under the Spanish, when tens of thousands of Quechua and Aymara died working the great silver mountain at Potosi to fund the Spanish empire.’
- ‘The rest of its people are Indians, mainly Quechua and Aymara who are subsistence farmers in the mountains.’
- ‘Along with the descendants of the colonial Spanish, Bolivia is home to diverse ethnic groups of pre-Hispanic origin, such as Quechua, Aimara, Chiquitano and Guarani among others.’
- ‘But the campesinos in the market, the indigenous Quechuas and Aymaras, stare right through me.’
- ‘Later I'd hear that Aymaras from the highlands would fight Quechuas from the river, but also that in the contest of tinku, the rules of engagement between ayllus were far too intricate to summarize.’
2[mass noun] The language or group of languages of the Quechua, spoken by some 11 million people.
- ‘The first polyphonic composition published in the New World, a delightful marching song for mixed choir with a text in Quecha, the language of the Incas, appeared at Lima in 1631.’
- ‘They showed not only ancient ruins in great detail, but also the geology and topography of the Cusco Valley and the daily life of the local Indians, who spoke Quichua, the language used by the Inca.’
- ‘The road is known as the Gran Ruta Inca in Spanish or Capaq Ñan in Quechua, an indigenous language of central Peru.’
- ‘Quichua includes the northern dialects of Quechua, the language of the imperial Inca.’
- ‘Once the capital of the great Inca empire, Cusco means ‘navel’ in the ancient Inca language, Quechua, and refers to the Incan belief that it lay at the centre of the world.’
- ‘They have announced plans to provide versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in Quechua, the language of the Incas.’
- ‘They speak Quechua, the language of the Incas, herd alpaca and llamas and grow potatoes and beans, which they trade with their lowland neighbours for corn.’
- ‘The two official languages of Peru are Spanish and Quechua.’
- ‘Originally spoken during the Incan empire, Quechua is still spoken by about 13 million people in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.’
- ‘Quechua speakers perceive Quechua to be the language for community/family/home, and Spanish the language for everything outside those domains.’
- ‘Ayahuasca is a Quechua word, Quechua being the language of the Inca Empire which is still spoken by many people throughout Peru.’
- ‘However, a significant proportion of Ecuador's Andean population speaks the ancient Incan language of Quechua and a variety of related dialects.’
- ‘Traditional languages still spoken include Quechua, Aymara and numerous Amazon indigenous languages.’
- ‘Many serranos speak the Indian language Quichua (descended from the Quechua of the Incas) and some speak no Spanish.’
- ‘The Andes, home of the Incas, remain predominantly Indian, the language Quechua spoken more often than Spanish.’
- ‘Native American communities still maintain their indigenous languages such as Quechua, Aymara, and the lesser known Indian languages spoken by the Amazon groups.’
- ‘Although the Incas generally left the social and political hierarchy of conquered kingdoms in place they required the rulers' sons to go to Cuzco to learn the Inca language, Quechua.’
- ‘More than 50 percent are Amerindians who speak mainly Quechua or Aymara as well as Spanish.’
- ‘Last Sunday, it was the Polish songs of Chopin, which were linguistically challenging enough, but on this concert she sang not only in Spanish but in Indian languages like Canichana and Quechua.’
- ‘Furthermore, the local radio stations often broadcast programs in local languages, e.g. Quechua and Aymara, in addition to programs in the national language, i.e. Spanish.’
adjective
Relating to the Quechua or their language.
- ‘My companions will be two Quechua Indians, a 66-year-old man and his nephew, who will herd the llamas to a distant valley where the older man, Irineo, will barter the salt for grain and produce.’
- ‘Many Jivaro now also speak the Quechua language, which is spoken throughout the Andes region.’
- ‘Their Aymara and Quechua roots go back to the Inca Empire that was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago.’
- ‘Whenever she pulls it out, Quechua women descend on Muller and her spindle, each taking turns showing her how to properly transform her pile of fleece into a ball of yarn.’
- ‘Most of the inhabitants are native Quechua Indians, descendants of the people who built the magnificent Inca buildings, the foundations of which still support the city and are now topped with Spanish colonial-era buildings.’
- ‘The gas export proposal may have also stirred racial fault lines separating the Andean population - mostly Aymara and Quechua Indians - from the minority of whites and mixed whites who have historically held Bolivian wheels of power.’
- ‘Donning replicas of Inca tunics, rather than contemporary Andean garb, Quechua Indians reenact the Inca sun-worshiping ceremony.’
- ‘The march through central Lima lasted several hours and included workers, Aymara and Quechua Indians, peasants and students.’
- ‘Others are Aymara and Quechua Indians forced off their lands by the crisis in traditional small-scale farming.’
- ‘The highland Andean Quechua people consider the Milky Way to be a giant river, and accordingly, the surrounding constellations include animals like llamas, and different intensity star clusters form clouds.’
- ‘When the Inca conquered Ecuador in the fifteenth century, they introduced the Quechua language (which Rosa speaks at home) and imposed a tax system in which payments were made in human labor.’
- ‘Having made their point, they returned to join thousands in the streets dancing to traditional Quechua music for five hours.’
- ‘In fact, the plant is sacred to the Aymara and Quechua people who are indigenous to the Andes.’
- ‘The coca leaf, considered sacred in Quechua culture, has many healing properties, one of them being the reduction of nausea and headache from altitude sickness.’
- ‘Entre Culturas, their flagship ‘edutainment’ program, offers everything from Quechua music videos to history lessons on Amazon-based tribes to Aymara-language cartoons.’
- ‘C. baccatum varieties are usually called aji and C. pubescens is known as rocoto from the name of the pepper in the Quechua language of the Inca.’
- ‘In the film, the travellers meet Quechua Indians, miners, Communists on the run, and Guevara learns about power.’
- ‘I decided to hitchhike my way toward it, and so in the first light I hopped into the bed of a dusty truck along with a group of Quechua farmers clad in pointed woolen caps and bright woolen sarapes.’
- ‘South America in pre-Hispanic times was dominated by the Inca culture, with a tendency to expand into the Inca Empire (or Tahuantinsuyo in the Quichua language).’
- ‘Because of large migration within the country, Aymara and Quechua speakers are also found throughout the major urban centers of Peru.’
Origin
Spanish, from Quechua ghechwa temperate valleys.
Pronunciation:
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