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- noun a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire
- noun a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
- noun the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
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Examples
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The name = = written also Qquichua, Quechua, Kechua = = most probably signifies those who "speak correctly", as distinguished from tribes from alien stock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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And rhatany, a leguminous shrub of South America, shows tampering with what must have been a Kechua word.
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If your familiarity with languages is limited to exposure to those of the Indo-European family, and your knowledge of, say, Chinese is about as extensive as your mastery of Swahili or Kechua, you may be interested in learning more about Chinese from a book I have been reading with great interest,
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They represented Kechua, Cheyenne, Yucatec and Kechin Maya, Mapuche, Cuna and numerous other indigenous groups from Alaska and British Columbia to Hawaii, and Panama to Argentina.
theartblog 2008
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