Language family spoken primarily in the Andes region of South America.
1In the Peruvian, or Quichua, I find rain, para; to rain, parani.
2In the first place, Quichua abhors the shock of two consonants.
3One of the centres of the ancient Quichua civilization was around Lake Titicaca.
4Some posed as Quichua, living among the enemies who now occupied their lands.
5If this be so, Quichua may be a linguistic missing link.
6Ricardo Charaja, the best Quichua assistant we ever had, came from Santa Rosa.
7The poet found a convenient instrument for his purposes in the beautiful Quichua dialect.
8The head of the Quichua is an oblong longitudinal, somewhat compressed at the sides.
9As a matter of fact the Quichua handshake is extremely fishy and lacks cordiality.
10There was, for instance, the learning of the Quichua language.
11Their language differs from the Quichua, though evidently a sister-tongue.
12The resemblance between the Quichua and Mandan words for I or me-mi-will here be observed.
13Dr. Brinton translates it from the Quichua, as follows
14Vocabularies from the Quichua, Záparo, Yágua, and Cámpas Languages.
15Food, in Quichua, micunnan; in Malay, macannon.
16We must now examine some of the forms which Aryan roots are supposed to take in Quichua.