RENATA FLORES RIVERA: Ayacuchana Quechua Singer

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RENATA FLORES RIVERA: Ayacuchana Quechua Singer
He is my boy 🥺 I love him. (If only he were still alive)
INTRODUCTION
Heya :D I am Woden(scild), ane/ene/anek - they/them. I am a linguist, Fyrnsidere (Anglo-Saxon Heathen), hospitality worker, & all round nerd! This is my personal blog for things I find interesting & what makes me smile!
Allillanchu waliqllanchu? Sutiyqa Woden(scild)mi! Noqaqa lingüístiquen, Fyrnsideren, hospitalidad llak’taqmi, yachaqmi kashani UWApi. Chay personalidad blogmi :] runasimitan qelqanakunchis! Noqaqa perutan viajayta munani!
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Getting to know Quechua
Here, some of the most common questions regarding the language of the Incas, a language that you may have not even heard its name in your life. So, why not some facts before starting with the vocabulary lists?
What is Quechua?
Actually, Quechua is not a single language, but a family. We are not going to discuss how linguistics have classified it, but it’s important to know that are two main groups: Quechua I or central, and Quechua II or peripheral. The last one is the most spread but contains multiple dialects. I’ll be focusing in the southern dialects of Quechua II, especially on those called Ayacucho Quechua and Cusco Quechua.
Where is Quechua spoken?
Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and part of Chile and Colombia. It has official status only in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. As you see, it is spoken through the areas that once formed part of the Inca Empire.
How many people speak Quechua?
The real data is unavailable due to the lack of a census in the last years. But according to our last sources and linguistics works the total number would be over 10 million people today.
How do you write it?
The Incas did not develop a script for their language. Today, Quechua was adapted to fit in the Latin alphabet, common to many European languages.
Unfortunately, a problem is that there is not a single way of writing the different sounds, and there have been many attempts to unify the orthography, but many have failed. On my case, I will try to use the “Standard Quechua”, created by the linguist Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino.
Does it look like any other more spread language?
Quechua grammar and vocabulary is not alike any European language, nor Asian, nor African. The closest family is the Aymara languages, which were and are also spoken in South America.
However, a lot of vocabularies have entered to Quechua from Spanish and vice versa. In Bolivia, particularly, Quechua words are used extensively even by non-Quechua speakers.
How does it sound?
Quechua’s phonology varies between the different dialects, but as I’ve said, I’m focusing on the Southern Quechua.
From my point of view, Quechua shares many sounds with Spanish, and thank the new rules of orthography, one could say that every sound has only one way to be written. That is, pronunciation can be determined from spelling.
Some Quechua features:
Quechua is a highly-agglutinative language. Eg:
Buwis: ox
Buwisninkukunapaq: for their oxes
Quechua has not articles.
Quechua has various cases, and uses them instead of prepositions or postpositions.
All the nouns have a regular declination, and all the verbs have a regular conjugation.
Like English, adjective lack gender and number, and are placed before the noun.
There are plenty of suffixes, and many of them aren’t directly translated to other languages.
There are topic and comment suffixes.
Many of those suffixes show the speaker intentions or moods, so Quechua becomes a very expressive language.
Usually, the common word order is SOV.
Quechua
Yeah I just made the title that to catch your attention. Anywho, I am going to Peru for two months (I mean, I’m not sure if I’m going yet I’m still applying but I’m trying to use positive language here) and so I’m trying to get like some basic Quechua before I go. And before anybody goes “but they all speak Spaaanish in Peru” imma go no, some don’t, and also the organization I’m specifically going with interacts a lot with Quechua speaking people. Mostly they need English and Spanish out of me but if I can say “hey, I can hold an itty bitty conversation in Quechua” then even better! SO yeah basically I need Quechua learning resources. Like all of them. So if you ever spot some resource no matter how small or inconsequential you think it is I need it. Give it to me. Please. I beg of you. (Btw I’m gonna be in Cuzco, Peru, so that’s sort of the region/dialect I need but I’ll take anything and everything).
Title: Chola Cuzqueña
Artist: Julia Codesido
Renata Flores Rivera, Quechua pop-star
Nouns
Runasimi: Quechua language
Runa: human being
Simi: language, tongue
Wiraqucha: Mr
Quya: Mrs or Ms
Wayna: gentleman
Sipas: lady
Suti: name
Verbs
Kay: to be
Yachay: to learn, to know, to live
Gustay: to like
Riy: to go
Llamkay: to work
Quy: to give
Mikuy: to eat
Upyay: to drink
Greetings
Buynus diyas: good morning
Rimaykullayki: good morning/afternoon/evening
Chaskillaykim: good morning/afternoon/evening
¿Imaynallataq kachkanki?: how are you?
¿Allillanchu?: (are you) fine?
Allinllam: I’m fine
… kachkani: My name is… (lit. I am…)
Anchatam kusinki: nice to meet you
Ñuqapas anchatam kusinki: nice to meet you too