Quechua is a native language spoken by approximately 10 million people in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and parts of Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, as well as by diasporic communities in other South American countries, the United States, and Europe. Quechua is also known as Runa Shimi or “the people’s language.”

Quechua, usually called Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with a total of probably some 8–10 million speakers.

Learn Quechua. Known as the language of the Incas, it is spoken in South America by 8 million people. It is characterized by being expressive, emotional and sweet. It is the expression of cultures that respect the harmony of being with nature. There are variants forming a …

Although most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, there are some significant populations in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina . The most common Quechua dialect is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa .

May 23, 2018 · Quechua was the official language of the Inca Empire, the kingdom that ruled the Andes region from the mid-1400s until the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in 1532. This language became the lingua franca of Spaniards and Amerindians in the Andes regions. The Quechua language is known by its speaker as Runa Simi, or the language of the people.