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Quechua

Course Numbers

• Quechua 1: LING 0441
• Quechua 2: LING 0442
• Quechua 3: LING 0443
• Quechua 4: LING 0444

Instructor

Salome Guttierez
salome@pitt.edu

About Quechua

Quechua ("qheshwa") or RUNASIMI is an indigenous language of the Andean region, spoken today by approximately 11 million people in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Northern Chile, Argentina, and Southern Colombia. It was the official language of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca Empire.

Quechua is a perfectly regular language, which makes learning the basics quite easy. However, a large number of suffixes and infixes can be added to words to change both overall significance and subtle shades of meaning, which leads to rare expressiveness.