Quechua
Quechua is a Quechuan language spoken in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, by about 1.5 million people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Cusco Quechua (Quechua: Qusqu qhichwa simi) is a dialect of Southern Quechua spoken in Cusco and the Department of Cusco of Peru.
It is the Quechua variety used by the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua in Cusco, which also prefers the Spanish-based five-vowel alphabet. On the other hand, the official alphabet used by the ministry of education has only three vowels.
From Wikipedia · Cusco Quechua · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Llapa runan kay pachapi paqarin qispisqa, "libre" flisqa, allin kausaypi, chaninchasqa kausaypi kananpaq, yuyayniyoq, yachayniyoq runa kasqanman jina. Llapa runamasinwantaqmi wauqentin jina munanakunan.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Quechua
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | mama | |
| father | tayta | |
| child | wamra | |
| man | qhari | |
| woman | warmi | |
| name | suti | |
| friend | atillcha | |
| eye | ñawi | |
| ear | rinri | |
| nose | sinq'a | |
| tooth | kiru | |
| tongue | qallu | |
| hand | maki | |
| heart | sunqu | |
| head | uma | |
| blood | yawar | |
| bone | tullu | |
| skin | qara | |
| breast | ñuñu | |
| liver | kipcan | |
| water | yaku | |
| fire | nina | |
| sun | inti | |
| moon | killa | |
| star | chaska | |
| sky | hanaq pacha | |
| rain | para | |
| snow | rit'i | |
| wind | wayra | |
| stone | rumi |
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Grammar
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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