The Language Quechua of Inca

                                      By Jan Casiquito

 

 Quechua is famous for being the language of the Inca Empire of Peru. There are as many as forty such Quechua languages spoken natively today by seven million Indian people in South America. It is still an Indigenous language of the Andean region spoken in counties like Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Northern Chile, Argentina, and Southern Colombia. It is the most widely spoken of all the languages of the Indigenous people in America.