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# quechua

«quechua» in Mova's school dictionary: **a family of languages spoken by millions of Indigenous…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Quechua — the language and the people); adjective (Quechua)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Quechua is a family of languages spoken by millions of Indigenous people in the Andes mountains of South America, mostly in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#m1)

2) The Quechua are the peoples who speak these languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#m2)

3) Quechua was the main language of the Inca Empire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons about South America and the Incas. Some English words came from Quechua, such as llama, condor, puma, jerky and quinine. Phrases: «speak Quechua», «Quechua people», «Quechua words».

### examples

- Quechua is spoken by millions of people in Peru and Bolivia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x1)
- The Incas spoke Quechua. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x2)
- The word «llama» comes from Quechua. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x3)
- Many children in the Andes learn Quechua at home and Spanish at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x4)
- Quechua is an official language of Peru and Bolivia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x5)
- Quechua farmers grow potatoes high in the mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x6)
- Our class learned to say hello in Quechua: «Allillanchu?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/#x7)

### note

Proper noun: write it with a capital Q (Quechua). Said «KETCH-wa». It is not one single language but a group of closely related languages.

### In the corpora

- [Quechua was the language of the Inca Empire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quechua» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quechua/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.