Language family spoken primarily in the Andes region of South America.
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Shanjean Lee asks a Quechua woman for directions to the boulders.
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Mardonio Borda is a 19-year-old native Quechua with broken Spanish and a sixth-grade education.
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Quechua girls admire Andean mountain views on the Ausungate trail.
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In addition to Spanish and the native language of Quechua, he spoke English and French.
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Glaciers, another source of water for the Quechua, have also been affected by warming temperatures.
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In the south, Aymara is chiefly spoken; but further north, Quechua is the commoner language.
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The Quechua are the most numerous and widespread of about 50 indigenous groups in Peru.
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We head out bouldering, and it's then that we run into the angry Quechua woman.
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Quechua activists say they view themselves as indigenous.
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There was the Quechua woman again on the Inca Trail, handing Amanda back her lost wallet.
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Shrunken grandmothers in traditional Quechua garb coaxed llamas into tourists' photos in exchange for a few soles.
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On my last day visiting her I took along a Quechua-speaking friend of mine, also from Ayacucho.
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Most of them were native speakers of Quechua or Ashaninka, underscoring Peru's deep ethnic and cultural divide.
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They should follow the Quechua example of trying to use water resources as efficiently as possible, she added.
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Humala at the time specifically mentioned the Quechua as a group that would be covered by the law.
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At dawn, lodge-keeper Orlando Garcia gently awakens his guests with a love song performed in the Quechua language.