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Bookmark or Share- Q'eqchi' - Encyclopedia.comQ'eqchi' ETHNONYMS: Kekchí, K'ekchí. Citation styles. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA).
- Quechua - Encyclopedia.comThe term quechua refers more to the language than to a concrete ethnic group. The Quechua language was the administrative language of the Inca state. It is spoken by millions of people in Peru (about 8 million), Ecuador (nearly 2 million), and Bolivia (about 1 million).
- Peru, The Catholic Church in - Encyclopedia.comCatholics contributed to the study of native languages: Domingo de Santo Tom á s, Luis Ger ó nimo de or É, gonz Á lez holgu Í n and Torres Rubio documented Quechua, while bertonio wrote on the Aymara language. Convent chroniclers reflected in their works not only internal history and events but also the daily life, customs and events of ...
- Mita - Encyclopedia.comClorinda Matto de Turner's 1889 novel Aves sin nido shows how forced labor in the form of pongos is extracted from Quechua speakers. The pongo system has survived in fact until the present day. Other regions of Latin America had similar systems of forced labor such as the tequitl in the Nahuatl-speaking territories of Central Mexico.
- Aymara - Encyclopedia.comThe Aymara language, one of the three most widely spoken (with Quechua and Guaran í) Indian language in South America, belongs to the Andean-Equatorial Language Family, more specifically to the Jaqi Language Group. There are three Jaqi languages: Jaqaru and Kawki, spoken only in Peru, and Aymara, spoken primarily in Bolivia and Peru.
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