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Kechua

American  
[kech-wah, -wuh] / ˈkɛtʃ wɑ, -wə /

noun

plural

Kechuas,

plural

Kechua
  1. Quechua.


Kechua British  
/ ˈkɛtʃwə /

noun

  1. a variant of Quechua

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In Study No. VIII. are discussed the various dialects of the Kechua or Quichua tongue of Peru, with an unpublished text from the Pacasa dialect.

From A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Some authorities hold that Peruvian civilization had no connexion with the north and was an entirely indigenous product, but Kechua is in structure not unlike the agglutinative languages of central and northern Asia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

The complete text, from the copy in the convent of San Domingo at Cuzco, was first published at Vienna in 1853 by Dr. von Tschudi in his 'Die Kechua Sprache.

From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir