Quechuan
Americanadjective
noun
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Origin of Quechuan
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Each word, whether French or Quechuan, seemed to hold double meaning, so full-bodied was her vocal production.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024
True language mixing can produce weird and wonderful offspring like Media Lengua, which combines Quechuan grammar and Spanish vocabulary to form an “in-between” tongue spoken by some indigenous Ecuadorians.
From Slate • Dec. 24, 2019
Still, roughly 10 million people throughout the area of the former Incan Empire have preserved their culture and still speak Quechuan.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2016
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