![]() In indigenous communities in the Andes work is often shared throughout the community. ![]() This word translates roughly as ‘hoy por ti, manana por mi’, or, today for you, tomorrow for me. For a fun video to put your new-found Quechua skills into action, check out this music video by Renata, a singer who translates popular songs into Quechua!Īyni is the concept of community. An obvious must have for your Quechua vocabulary. What list would be complete without knowing how to say your name?! Sutiymi is a way to say ‘my name is…’ followed by your name. So, when greeting someone in Quechua, you are literally repeating the Incan laws! Therefore, the Incas would greet each other with their code of living, by saying do not lie, do not steal, do not be lazy, and in return the speaker would say ckanpas inallatac (you do the same). The Incas had three main laws: do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy. In order to understand this greeting, we need to understand a little bit about Inca Culture. There are three different ways to greet someone in Quechua:Īma sua – literal translation, ‘don’t steal’.Īma lulla: literal translation ‘don’t lie’Īma quella: literal translation ‘don’t be lazy.’ So, without further ado, top 8 words for travelers learning Quechua! Let’s learn Quechua,and some Quechua culture along the way! Quechua Phrases If you’d like to learn more about phonetics in Quechua, click here. It’s agglutinative, meaning it’s composed of one root word (for example, tutan = night) and suffixes are added to express meaning (sapa = all, added to tutan, sapatutan = all of the nights!) It has three main vowels (a, i, u) and fourteen consonants. ![]() This was done in order to spread Christianity to the Quechuan speaking people. Quechua was originally only a spoken language, that is, until the Spanish came in 1526 and applied the Roman Alphabet. While Quechua has many dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible, we’ll be focusing on the dialect spoken in the Cuzco region of Peru. There are roughly around around 8 to 12 million speakers. Quechua is an ancient indigenous language family spoken in the range of the Andes, including countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and some smaller populations in Chile, Colombia and Argentina. We’ll be learning some useful phrases, as well as some interesting things about the culture! Overview of Quechua Language Also known as Runasmi (runa, roughly translated as ‘people’ and simi, meaning ‘speech’), it’s an expressive language family spoken in the Andes. Today’s blog post is about learning Quechua!
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