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QUECHUA

Quechua is a language spoken by about 10,000,000 people in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru around the Andes Mountains. It is the official language of Bolivia and Peru, and is the most widely spoken of the Native American Indian languages.

Today's theories about Quechua's origin put its initial territorial domain in modern Peru's Central Coast, possibly in the ancient city of Caral, around 2600 BC. Quechua has often been grouped with Aymara as a larger Quechumaran linguistic stock, largely because about a third of its vocabulary is shared with Aymara. Until the arival of the Spanish, who introduced the latin alphabet, Quechua was a spoken language only. Still, most speakers of it can not write it, as there are very few things written in Quechua.

There are two main dialects of Quecha: Waywash, which is spoken in the Peruvian highlands; and Wanp'una, or Traveler, which is divided into three groups: Yunkay Quechua, Northern Quechua, and Southern Quechua. Of these, Southern Quechua has the largest number of speakers.

Quechua is still a very important languge, as it is the 83rd largest in the world.