Where Do They Speak Quechua?

Quechua today
Today, Quechua is the most widely spoken indigenous language of Peru. It's an official language of the country and is used as the main everyday language in many rural areas. Quechua is most commonly spoken in the southern and central highland areas of Peru.

How is Quechua different from Spanish?

Quechua is closer in structure to Turkish or Japanese than it is to Spanish: it is agglutinative, and the verb comes at the end. It is phonetically more complex than Spanish, and has more cases than any Indoeuropean language has ever had. English is very closely related to Spanish, compared to Quechua.

Who speaks Quechua?

Quechua, Quechua Runa, 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.

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