Quechua

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The substance yaje - or ayahuasca in Quechua, the ancient Inca language - is derived from a hallucinogenic jungle vine used for centuries in religious and healing ceremonies.

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  1. noun The Quechuan language of the Inca empire, now widely spoken throughout the Andes highlands from southern Colombia to Chile.
  2. noun A member of a South American Indian people originally constituting the ruling class of the Inca empire.
  3. noun A member of a Quechuan-speaking people.

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  • Adding to that there's a linguistics section with wordlists and language flash cards in languages such as Icelandic, Quechua, Basque, Classical Armenian and a whole bunch more.
  • The largest of the approximately three dozen indigenous groups are the Quechua (29\% or 2.5 million), Aymara
  • Around 1450, the Quechua-speaking Incas entered the area of modern highland Bolivia and added it to their empire.
  • The substance yaje - or ayahuasca in Quechua, the ancient Inca language - is derived from a hallucinogenic jungle vine used for centuries in religious and healing ceremonies. —  Home - BostonHerald.com
  • Additionally, they would like to spread the literacy campaign to teach languages such as Quechua and Aymara, the two most widely spoken indigenous languages in Bolivia. —  Green Left Weekly issue #746
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  1. Spanish, from Quechua kkechuwa, plunderer.
 

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