Quechua the language of men
According to the 1993 census, there were 3 177 938 people in Peru – 16.46% of the population – who had Quechua as their mother tongue, of which 1,535,324 were men and 1,642,614 were women. If we take into account only the rural population (5 566 717 inhabitants), the percentage of Quechua speakers doubles (32.02%), […]
The Llama
The camelids are originally from North America, from where a group went to Asia by crossing the Bering Strait and gave rise to the Bactrian camels, a trunk from which, in turn, the dromedary arose. The other group populated the entire American continent, but over time it was confined to the south, where it acquired […]
The Aymara Language
We do not know with certainty what its own speakers called it – perhaps jaqui aru, “language of the people” -, nor do we know the origin of the name it currently bears: Aymara. The person who first mentions this word is the lawyer Juan Polo de Ondegardo, and only in 1559. Since then it […]
