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Quechua Language Instructional Website

Welcome! By studying the lessons presented in this site, you will gain a basic knowledge of Quechua, the agglutinative language that was spoken by the citizens of the Incan Empire. In terms of speaker population, Quechua currently ranks first among indigenous languages in the Americas. Today, there are over ten million speakers of Quechua living throughout southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina (Silver & Miller, 1997:7).

How to Use This Site

Preliminary Lesson

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

About the Web Author

About the Images

Acknowledgements

Resources