Search results for "Quechua" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Incan languages such as Quechua and Aymara have an almost straightforward decimal system, in which 11 is expressed as ten with one and 23 as ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- millennium when the Quitu tribe (from the Quechua civilization) occupied the ... to local pasillos, Latin American rhythms, Quechua-language programs, and news ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- |footnote1=Quechua and other Amerindian languages spoken by indigenous communities. |footnote2=Sucre until 2000, followed by the U.S. dollar and ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- were carried out using a yupana (quechua for "counting tool"; see figure) which was still in use after the conquest of Peru. The working ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- among peoples living in highlands of the Andes: Quechua and Aymara, mainly in Peru, and also in Bolivia and Ecuador. Andean harp has relatively large ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- the term used for several ethnic groups that use a Quechua language in South America, particularly in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 10:25, 7 June 2023
- Peru, and Uruguay, the avocado is known by its Quechua name, palta. In other Spanish-speaking countries it is called aguacate, and in Portuguese it ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:18, 23 August 2023
- |regional_languages = Araucano, Guaraní, Quechua,Welsh |ethnic_groups = 97.2% European (mostly Spanish and Italian descent ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- natives' labor and cooperation, evangelized in Quechua, Nahuatl, Guarani, and other Native American languages, contributing to the expansion of these ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- quot; comes, via Spanish, from the Quechua language of Peru (Harper 2001a, 2001b). ==Taxonomy and evolution== The cougar is the largest of the ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- " or "sea gulls;" or from the Quechua chin, "cold," or the Aymara tchili, meaning "snow." Another meaning attributed ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
