About Quechua Language | Quechua | Alphabets in Quechua

Countries

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.

Similar To

Aymara and Guarani Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 13 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 16 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Rimaykullayki

Thank You

Solpayki

How Are You?

Allillanchu

Good Night

Allin tuta

Good Evening

Wuynas nuchis

Good Afternoon

Wuynas tardis

Good Morning

Wuynus diyas

Please

jamuspa

Sorry

Pampachaykuway

Bye

bye

I Love You

Kuyayki

Excuse Me

Pampachaway

Dialects

Dialect 1

Ancash

Where They Speak

Peru

How Many People Speak

920,000.00

Rank: 62 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Huánuco

Where They Speak

Peru

How Many People Speak

190,000.00

Rank: 75 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Yaru

Where They Speak

Peru

How Many People Speak

150,000.00

Rank: 63 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 10 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.90 million

Rank: 58 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.13 %

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.90 million

Rank: 48 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

8.00 million

Rank: 44 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Qhichwa

Alternative Names

North La Paz Quechua

French Name

quechua

German Name

Quechua-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈketʃwa]

Ethnicity

Quechua

History

Origin

16th Century

Language Family

Quechumaran Family

Subgroup

Andean Equatorial

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Quechua

Language Position

Rank: 21 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Quechua

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

que

ISO 639 2/B

que

ISO 639 3

que

ISO 639 6

que

Glottocode

quec1387

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Quechua

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Quechua Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Quechua Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Quechua. Quechua phonology gives Quechua vowels and Quechua consonants. There are 5 vowels and 26 consonants in Quechua language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Quechua is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Quechua language is given in detail in this section.

All Quechua countries

Want to explore all Quechua countries? About Quechua language serves you with all Quechua Speaking Countries. Countries that use Quechua as official language are called as Quechua countries.

Countries that use Quechua as their National Language are: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Quechua as second language are: Quechua is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Quechua greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Quechua Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Quechua language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Quechua language.Learn Quechua greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Rimaykullayki
Thank you: Solpayki
Good Morning: Wuynus diyas
Good Evening: Wuynas nuchis
Good Afternoon: Wuynas tardis

All Quechua Language Codes

Get to know all Quechua language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Quechua Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.