Quichua
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Blanca Ashanga harvests corn in a field in the Quichua community of San Pedro Sumino in the province of Napo in the Ecuadorean jungle.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2013
The claimants called themselves Los Afectados, or the affected ones, and among their ranks were members of the Cofan and Quichua tribes.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 10, 2011
Mamita hisses in Quichua, “Get your face out of that filthy animal’s fur. Or else we’ll eat it for lunch.”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
“Thank you, senora. I know my Quichua is awful. I practice every night in my room, but I don’t live with my parents anymore and so I don’t have the chance to talk Quichua.”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
To her I call more softly in Quichua.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians; on local variation of colour in the Quichuas; on the hairlessness of the Aymaras and Quichuas; on the long hair of the Aymaras and Quichaus.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
We stood quite still, though some of our generals urged that we should charge, but this I counselled Huaracha not to do, who desired that the Quichuas should break their strength upon us.
From The Virgin of the Sun by Haggard, Henry Rider
As might have been foreseen, he chafed under restraint, escaped as soon as possible from his attentive guardians, and raised an army of faithful Quichuas.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram
As if to emphasize the rarity of this method of forming numerals, the Jiviros afterward discarded the last five of the above scale, replacing them by words borrowed from the Quichuas, or ancient Peruvians.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
The Quichuas of Peru must not be confounded with the Quiches of Guatemala.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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