Inca Language
Language of the Incas
Science degree is not known which was the language originally spoken by the Incas. In 1438, Pachacuti Inca quechua officially adopted, it was the language of a neighboring tribe that occupied the valley of the Apurimac River.
Quechua language played a decisive role in the unification of the empire. Incan armies carried a teacher who was responsible for teaching the language to people under; this way extended the quechua, negating the many dialects. Currently, the language spoken, with some variations, most of the indigenous population in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Northern Chile and Northern Argentina.
Quechua
Definition of Quechua: belonging or related to the peoples of the Andean Quechua language spoken by some of its many dialects. Language of the civilization of South America, the time precolombiana, still spoken by 13 million people, especially in Peru. -Where he was an official language, together with Castilian, from 1975 to 1979 - and Bolivia, and least in Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina.
The peoples of the language quechua was the creator of the Inca culture. At present quechua culture is based on agriculture and less on herding sheep and llamas.
The language quechua was born in the region of the upper Apurimac and Urubamba, replaced in many regions to aymara and other indigenous languages, and extended the Inca empire along the Andes and the Pacific coast to the river Angasmayo by the North, and even regions of Tucuman in Argentina and Chile near downtown.
Under the Inca empire, these people (harawac, Caribbean, pano, aymara, etc) have adopted the language imposed by the Incas. With the Spanish conquest, the quechua was extended further by the use he made of the missionaries for the evangelization and penetrated into regions such as Santiago del Estero in Argentina, Amazon High (Mayna dialect) in Huallaga (chasutino dialect), high-Pastaza (canelo dialect), Upper Napo (Quix dialect) and Southern Colombia.
Quechua dialects are not very distinct and can be distinguished, roughly, the northern dialects, or Chinchasuyu, which can add size or lamista and southern dialects, or Tahuantisuyu.
