Quichua
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Quichuas,
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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
Slowly, the children approach me, asking me ques- tions in Quichua, which I can’t answer.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
“Pagui, Mamita,” I say in Quichua, thanking her.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
When I told Mamita about it, she frowned and muttered some- thing in Quichua.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
"You mean that you would choose to be King over the Chancas rather than stand next to the throne among the Quichuas?" he said, scanning me sharply.
From The Virgin of the Sun by Henry Rider Haggard
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 Levi Leonard Conant
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 Daniel Garrison Brinton
They were probably the same race as the Quichuas, who inhabited the western shores, and a large portion of the Andes, under the rule of the Incas.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
It is, however, more reasonable to suppose that the Quichuas and Aimaras were a race of emigrants from Plato's island than to think that Atlantis was populated from South America.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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