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Quechuan

American  
[kech-wuhn] / ˈkɛtʃ wən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Quechua language or people.


noun

  • Quechuans,
    plural
  • Quechuan
    plural
  1. Quechua.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of Quechuan

First recorded in 1835–45; Quechu(a) + -an


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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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