As an Indigenous woman from Apurimac - Peru, who learned Quechua as my first language, I want to say thank you (sullpayki) for making this video. Regarding the question about Quechua speakers, many factors affected the discrimination against the Quechua language - including structural aspects such as the civil war in the 80s. In the 90s, it was forbidden to speak Quechua in my school. Instead, they wanted us to learn Spanish in school. At my school, if you spoke Quechua, you would be punished. My grandmother could not speak Spanish, and it was hard for her to not be able to communicate with her grandchildren. Practically, we were forced to speak Spanish. Eventually, many students migrated to Lima for various reasons - often, they want to finish high school because we do not have a high school in many communities. Many young Indigenous people had to work during the day and study at night, and we were discriminated against because of our accents at school and at work. Unfortunately, many Indigenous women still have to come to Lima to finish high school and work as domestic workers while they study. Often, these kinds of workers were exploited, and many Indigenous youth women had to endure this hard work in order to finish high school. I left a message here years ago about Quechua culture and language and my experiences facing discrimination and cultural assimilation, but I think it is important to highlight the Quechua resistance; not just as a language but also as a worldview and bringing new ways of thinking to the world. Domestic workers in Latin America are frequently Indigenous, and often young women. When I was young, I could not imagine I would now have this privilege of studying in a doctorate program. This would not be possible without the help and support of good people with good hearts. There are still good families that really are conscious of the realities of Indigenous women and the reasons why they are working as domestic workers. It is important to understand that working during school is not necessarily by choice. It is because we often see it as the only option, particularly if you do not have a house in the city. The need to complete high school, or other factors, determines why some Indigenous women end up working in homes; not because it is their dream, but because it is a necessity. In Lima, we talk in Spanish most of the time, but when there are situations when we want to express an emotion, we start with Quechua because it conveys more connection and meaning than Spanish. I often travel to my community, and now we can speak Quechua most of the time; Quechua revitalization is taking place across Latin America (Abya Yala). This is thanks to many activists, academics, communities, etc., who are working hard on the revitalization of the Quechua Language. I am teaching free Quechua classes through the Kuskalla project which was established in 2020 as an Indigenous organization dedicated to promoting Indigenous Andean knowledge and ways of being. Facebook page: facebook.com/indigenasdelperu/ This is our email kuskallaquechua@gmail.com to anyone who is interested in Quechua culture "If you speak to a man in his second language you are speaking to his brain, but if you speak to a man in his first language, you are speaking to his heart". (Nelson Mandela )
Wow! That's a very beautiful testimony. I can't imagine the pain of being punished for speaking your own mother tongue. I feel so sorry for people who have to go through that. I've been to Peru, I think Inka culture (the bits of it that have survived) is very beautiful. I hope that the governments and the people of the quechua speaking areas find a way to keep it alive and that it becomes a reason for joy and proud to its native speakers and that no one has to be ashamed of their own language anymore.
YOJANA MIRAYA you should ban spanish like in the philippines and promote your own indigenous language, the only non spanish speaking former spanish colony
I’m Japanese and surprised that Quechua’s grammatical structure seems quite similar to our language! Nice to know because my husband is half native Peruvian :)
Native Americans (i mean whole continent) came from Siberia and they were speaking a proto-Altai language. Japanese Korean and Turkic (Im Turkish) are grammatically same and we all can see this structure in any language that related to us
@@Velika2002it souldn't be surprising. Turkic japanese etc. all people who are speaking an Altai language are originally come from South Siberia. Long before, there was a big see in Abakan and south Siberia was not like today's cold place. These people conquered other places and brought the language from their old civilization. Siberians went to America too.
I speak quechua all my life, in fact this was my mother language. went I went to school I learnt Spanish , after that I learnt English and I right now I'm trying to learn Eukera! !!! I really enjoyed your video about quechua, thank you for your explanation about it.
Una lengua quechua, una romance, una germánica, y una lengua aislada, y todas con gramáticas bien diferentes... una pavada! XD Si siguen el mandarín o el esperanto, podemos practicar :D 汉语很有意思，可是很难！ Esperanto ege facilas, kaj estas tiel amuza, kiel ludilo!
I mostly speak QUECHUA with my parents and people of my family. People is agressive in Lima when they hear you speaking Runasimi on the street. And many others think Quechua should dissapear. It won't happen. and now there is quechua on TV in Peru. I am very happy about that. :)
Hi: When i was an exchange student in Argentina, there was a very sweet Indian babysitter: She used to call one of the children a word that sounded like "baroochi" Could you translate it? Thank you !
My grandpa for some reason is embarrassed to speak in Quechua, like a lot of people his age. I think is a beautiful language which should be preserved, it's part of our culture, our history, who we are. Fortunately, young Peruvians have a different mindset from their grandfathers and appreciate Quechua :)
Hi:When i was an exchange student in Argentina, there was a very sweet Indian babysitter: She used to call one of the children a word that sounded like "baroochi" Could you translate it? Thank you !
In ecuador its the opposite :/ its easier for me to talk to older people in kichwa than young people. Younger ones will respond in spanish or simply get mad
junaid1 I dont think thats a word. Its probably a made up term of endearment. My mom says pichiruchis to me but it does not mean anything, She says it just out of affection.
I'm Peruvian, although I no longer live in Peru. When I was a little girl, growing up in Lima, everybody spoke Castilian. However, one of my babysitters was a native Quechua speaker, who has recently fled from Ayacucho (back then, it was being ravaged by the Shining Path). She would sometimes sing to me in Quechua. I remember once in second grade, I tried using a quechua expression to say I was cold, and everyone laughed at me. One of my classmates went as far as saying that quechua was "the language of the terrucos (terrorists)". I immediately learned not to use any more Quechua words in public. I wasn't able to understand back then how unfair that was, or the deeply rooted racism behind censorship of Quechua. Somehow learning English and Italian was OK, and everyone agreed that "all children" should learn "as many languages as possible" but Quechua was suspicious and not worth learning. I never learned Quechua. I wish I had. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I still like to listen to Andean music or to audios in Quechua. It's a very sweet, soothing language.
Hola hermosa, a las nuevas generaciones nos toca revindicar nuestra identidad , y uno de ellos es el Quechua, ahora la gente joven no tiene esos complejos y eso es bueno, tu donde estas debes contribuir en difundir lo nuestro con tu descendencia
The unfortunate reality of the culture in Lima. I haven't lived there in a while but there has always been so much rejection and discrimination towards the Andean culture. I wish Quechua was taught in the school system.
I'm Peruvian and I am deeply grateful to you for making this video. My dad and his siblings speak Quechua all the time. Sadly He didn't teach any Quechua to us (his children) which I think It is something that he regrets now (as you said it right, he had to move to the city when he was young for better opportunities and we all grew up in the city). Thankfully there are still a lot of towns in Peru that people speak Quechua all the time like my dad's hometown in Ayacucho. Currently, I am learning German, but sometime in the future for sure, I will take my time to learn Quechua since I love many songs in that language. Great work!
Imanalla, mashi ¿imata kangui? (Hola como estás?) Hast du schon deutsch gelernt? como te va con el alemán? - es mi primer idioma. y estoy tratando de aprender el quichua ecuatoriano. ;)
You know on my recent trip to Peru our tour guide (a native Quechua speaker) mentioned specifically how similar Japanese and Quechua are. She even said that many Quechua speakers quite easily learn Japanese.
I am from Central Asia, speak Kypchak Tutkic language it is also related, also some words same Mishy is Myshyk for example. I noticed mostly animals and relative or worrior names are mostly similar.
Saddam Hussein This is funny because I spent some time in Bolivia and all my Bolivian friends noted that Aymara, another indigenous language, sounds similar to Japanese.
Well Japanese and Spanish have similar pronunciation so it's not such a stretch to think that Quechua would also since there are many borrowed words from Spanish....
the grammatical rules are so similar with that of Turkish, but it doesn't sound Turkish at all:) but I really like the way quechua sounds! might learn one day!
amerikan yerlileri ural altay kökenli insanlardır altay dağlarında yaşarken zamanla bering boğazını geçip amerikaya ulaşmışlardır bu nedenle cümle yapısının türkçe ve diğer ural altay dillerine benzemesi normal bir şey
I wonder why some people refer to certain indigenous peoples as primitive? All languages appear to be as sophisticad as the next. I'm loving this chanel. These videos bring more water to the Amazonian flames than our politicians!
El caso es que los "Conquistadores" eran unos perfectos ignorantes y vinieron con el proposito fe rntiquecerse..fue una real desgracia..los Incas y el pueblo hablaban diferentes idiomas muchos de los cuales se han perdido salvo el.runasimi...que debe ser recuperado..por nuestro propio orgullo nacional..Aumi?
@@yolandamartell599 Your mountain looks powerful and so beautiful. I'm sorry for your struggle! Good luck from Ireland🇮🇪 Things can change fast Yolanda!
The word "primitive" didn't have negative connotations originally. It just meant the older, unchanged state of being. Example: you may call hunter-gatherers "primitive" cause they retained ancestral way of life, which people had in the past while other people changed their lifestyle to agricultural and later industrial. But it doesn't mean their life is simpler in every way, in most ways the opposite. Only later primitive started to be used as a form of insult or to view some cultures as worse and less important
Hello Paul, You have inspired me to learn more languages. I'm a native spanish speaker since I'm mexican and english is my second language. After watching your videos I started learning portuguese a year ago (I'm fluent at portuguese now) and I'm currently learning japanese. Keep up the good work and keep inspiring people.
Don Chuko Portuguese is an inferior language compared to our glorious Spanish and but English is far worse. I started learning Hindi as second language 7 years ago and within one year I was fluent.
¡¡¡¡Yusulupaki!!!! 😊😊I've been waiting for this video since I subscribed to your channel! This means so much to me. Thanks for sharing the native language of my beautiful country, Perú. 😊❤ It was an excelent video. 😁 To answer your question: it depends on the context, but we usually speak in Quechua when we don't want others to understand what we are saying. Fun fact about me: it often happens that people talk about me in Quechua because they think I won't be able to understand (they see I'm pale af and have blue eyes, so they think I'm gringa😂😂) but I'm like "girrrl, I can understand everything you are saying". 😂😂😂 Anyway... Yes, there are many people who are ashamed of being Quechua speakers. It's even hard to find a place to learn the language (believe me). Thankfully, that is changing nowadays. Something important to recall is that there's a big portion of peruvian people that only speak Quechua. Not every Quechua speaker knows how to speak in Spanish (specially in Perú). Once again, thanks for the video!! 😍
Hola! Donde aprendiste quechua? Sabes si hay cursos online o algo? Quiero aprender desde hace unos meses, pero a parte de una u en lima no se donde mas :(
Hi :When i was an exchange student in Argentina, there was a very sweet Indian babysitter: She used to call one of the children a word that sounded like "baroochi" Could you translate it? Thank you !
@@giulibi me apena tanto como hay tanta gente hablando quechua en Ecuador, argentina y especialmente bolivia que tiene cultura casa idéntica y es olvidada o relacionada instantáneamente con Perú, bueno saludos desde Bolivia 🇧🇴
my grandma is from Bolivia and she speaks quechua but she knows a few words and expressions in Spanish, i'm going to learn quechua to talk with her, i really like that language, i wish my dad would've taught me and my siblings, but now i will learn it on my own as i did with English:)) saludos desde Argentina
My wife is from Peru, she tells me the words poncho, puma, and condor are Quechuan. Also, she tells me when calling local utility companies in Peru, you can press "1 for Spanish" or "2 for Quechua."
Hi:When i was an exchange student in Argentina, there was a very sweet Indian babysitter: She used to call one of the children a word that sounded like "baroochi" Could you translate it? Thank you !
Tau Maverick: I'm Peruvian and when I was living in my country, I never heard that from the phone company. But there was a local channel that gave the news in Quechua.
My grandmother is Peruvian and is 97 years old and counting and all she speaks is quechua only no Spanish. Because she took care of me when I was young I now speak and understand it. I asked her where it originated and she told me in Cusco.
Good for her that she only speaks Quechua! This is completely different, but im Chilean and I’ve met plenty of Chilean immigrants or 2nd generation who don’t teach their children their language. I find it disheartening, as it disconnects them from culture and family.
@@Catitalaratoncita Mientras tanto, tú hablas inglés y castellano. En fin, la hipotenusa. No esperas nada bueno de un roteque y así y todo te decepcionan.
Allillanmi . Soy peruano y actualmente lo estoy estudiando como mi cuarta lengua. Es maravilloso y la pronunciación es más compleja que la de mi lengua materna el castellano.
Alguna sugerencia de canales en youtube o de algún libro? Sé gramática muy bien y puedo leer libros en inglés a la perfección al igual que escuchar vídeos en inglés. ¿Alguna sugerencia?
No hay mucho material didáctico para poder aprender quechua, lamentablemente. Apenas conozco este canal, pero no más: ru-vid.com/show-UCBKn7908ehkE697kKK_YrrA También tienes a Wikipedia en Quechua, pero ya debes tener una buena base en quechua cuzqueño para poder aprender sobre el idioma.
I am very suprised that Runasimi is very similar to my native language Turkish. They are two language of two very far geographies but their morphology is very similar. Subject-Object-Verb word order in a sentence is same with Turkish. Noun cases and their usage purposes are almost same. There are similar suffixes in Turkish as exist in Runasimi, like -cha (diminutive); -chi (causative); -ka (passive, accidental), -ku(reflexive) suffixes . Turkish has personal suffixes too, Which added to predicate of sentence like runasimi. This is an example of similarity about Turkish and Runasimi. noun cases of wasi and Ev words. Both means house. wasi means "Ev" in Turkish. House: Ev wasi-manta. -- Ev-den -manta = -den from the house wasi-man -- Ev-e -man= -e to, in the direction of the house wasi-yuq -- Ev-li (sahiplik) -yuq = -li with the house (possessive) wasi-wan -- Ev-le -wan = -le with the house (instrumental) wasi-ta -- Ev- i -ta= - i to, at the house wasi-pi. -- Ev-de -pi= -de in the house wasi-pa -- Ev - in -pa= -in of the house (belongs to) wasi-paq --Ev- lik (ev için) -paq= -lik for the house
The first time I went to Ecuador, I heard the priest holding the mass in kichwa. The priest was speaking through a system of loudspeakers and the mass was easily heard outside the church. Of course, I didn't understand a word, but it was a nice experience one sunny Sunday while sitting in the Cotacachi's central plaza.
I'm Peruvian and I feel ashamed I can't speak the original language of my country. Yet, even knowing there have been many loanwords from Spanish to Quechua, the opposite is also true, although not for formal settings, but rather some regional vocabulary words. People in Peru should speak Quechua as our native language if Spaniards hadn't conquered us in the past. I really wish I could speak some Quechua. If there is somebody to teach, I'd be glad. I'm from Iquitos by the way.
Not only Quechua but the other native languages spoken in the Amazon and a bit of the Andes or coast (such as Aimara, Cauqui or Jacaru)! It depends on every single person's cultural origin.
Qechua very much reminds me of Japanese, as it also has the word order SOP, is an agglunative language and uses for example topic markers, which Japanese also has as they are part of the Particles.
Hey! We Turks say there are similarities between Quechua and Turkish, and you say there are similarities between Japanese and Quechua. I know that there are similarities between Japanese and Turkish, too. Isn't there a linguist who has studied all these languages to find out the fact behind it? I would love to read books on the topic!
It's still sad that the whole Inca, Maya and Aztec empires all fell and all orginal cultures there mostly died. Would have been interesting to see what their cultures would be like if they instead traded and with Europe and stuff and progressed on their own. We barely even learn about these civilisations in school.
EpreTroll The Aztecs sacrificed so many people to the Sun God that there was not enough people to tend the fields and grow food. They were somewhat imploding when the Spanish appeared. The big problem with the Aztecs, the Mayas and the Spaniards is that the Aztecs and Mayas had gold. If they didn’t have any precious metals and gems, probably the Spaniards would have “baptized” them and moved on to pillage somebody else.
We all as Peruvians need to preserve our native languages. It's not late to do it. Let's start to learn and promote it. I also challenge all people around the world to learn it :) Thank you so much for this complete information.
Thanks so much for covering Quechua. It's hard to find information on it in English. My father is from Peru and he is there now. He's told me that he wants to learn this language... What a coincidence!
I love the Quechua language :) I myself am learning the language of my ancestors, Nahuatl, language of the Mexica. Particularly the Huasteca dialect, the most prominent. Tlaskamati!
De hecho la variante ecuatoriana del quechua se escribe con i en vez de e, o sea Quichua o kichwa... o sea toda la vida has crecido escuchando Kichwa y no quechua.... pilas...
Woah! Great choice Paul! Being a Peruvian myself I was really surprised and pleased about this video. It is true that Quechua is an amazing language and it is very sad that cultural differences and racism are the main cause of the low usage of this language in my country. But there are some news that bring hope for the Quechua language and other native languages (Like Aimara or Ashaninka). This last years the Education Ministry has been pushing really hard for a bilingual curriculum in basic schools and we even have a Tv News program in quechua called Ñuqanchik (Us) aired on the national TV station! So yeah we are making slow progress, but more is needed. I want to thank you for the video because Quechua really needs exposition so more people learn about it. The more we learn about languages the less we are inclined to have stereotypes about people who speak those languages and with that we become more tolerant and empathetic beings so thanks! And finally a question related to the video: It seems to me that the Quechua topic marker and the Japanese topic marker are similar in some ways... do you see any similarities and or differences? And of course I can't finish this comment without saying: ¡Kausachum Perú! ¡Kausachum Paul!
Imanalla, tukuy mashikuna! Hi everyone! Many thanks for making this video, Paul, yupaychapani. I'm from Italy but my mother is from Ecuador and I can speak kichwa, the variety spoken in Ecuador. All varieties of Quechua are beautiful and important. I can understand quite well the Quechua from Cuzco but those from Central Peru are very different from the one I know. I hope that in the future more South Americans will be interested in learning the original languages of their countries. It's a treasure to be valued!
I had an uncle from Bolivia who moved to Germany and I heard he used to have a radio program in Quechua. Later on, while traveling in Germany, I noticed there were Quechua language classes advertised in German colleges, which is something I had never seen in South American colleges. Sad that sometimes it takes people from other countries to appreciate and preserve a culture that the locals demise.
in many ways, it is assimilation that has destroyed many cultures. the United States, Canada, Mexico, & Austrailia are some examples of countries who are responsible for causing many indigenous to lose their cultures & languages. sometimes, the youth & other people do not see value in their cultures, so it just disappears with time. sometimes the past is also way too painful to resurface, so it is just left to be forgotten with the pain. many religions such as the Catholic churches & Christian churches, are also responsible for leading mass genocides across the world. so there are many reasons why some cultures, & especially languages, are sometimes just passed on instead of learned. but in reality, it should be preserved for future generations. especially for the future generations in the indigenous tribes.
Great video. I remember in Cusco I had a Quechua-speaking taxi driver and I was asking him to to say this and that in Quechua. He was so happy and elated that foreigners took an interest in his people's language because he had a very good command of it. However, other people couldn't remember certain words and changed the subject relatively quickly. I notice similar things in the Scottish Highlands when people are asked about their Gaidhlig; if they have poor command of it (most people) they will respond with shame and/or change the subject, or even at times become angry.
Paul, Thanks so much for making this video! I am a linguistics university student and I am going to start learning Quechua formally next week as one of my classes. I am so excited to explore the language and cultures of the Andean region. I am sharing this video with my class for sure! I will say one similarity I noticed is that many indigenous languages of the Pan-American continent are agglutinative, such as Nahuatl or Blackfoot. Very interesting!
Hello Paul, i'm Marco from Paraguay, in Southamerica, i would like you speak about our second language the Guarani, here is official with the spanish, spoken about 80 % of population, making us bilinguals .Greetings from my country
This language was also common in Brazil I think..At least I remember até school that the mayor indigenous group was Tupi-Guarani..My father family came from North region of Brazil ("Amazon" region) but most of people from our region is ashamed to show their indigenous ancestry, though it is obvious since we look like more indigenous people when compared to other regions of Brazil
Nice video! I made a point to learn some Quechua when I was in Peru last year. I met quite a few young adults (under 30) who were very proud of their language, and eager to help me. They said their parents were embarrassed of the old language, but it is becoming popular again, and seen as national pride in the mountain regions. One interesting thing I was told. In Quechua, they say you move forward into the past, and move backwards into the future. It makes sense, we must be facing the past because we can all see what happened then. We have our backs to the future, because nobody can see what will happen. :)
The Asian languages have topic markers, like Japanese, if you want you can update Wikipedia's page about "topic marker" and add Quechua there. Thanks for the video :D
I've traveled three times to Andean region of South America (originally from Venezuela here) and I'm always encouraged to see and hear how widely spoken the native Quechua language is. Aymara too in Bolivia. I don't think these languages will disappear. If anything, they may experience a renaissance, much like Hawaiian has in Hawaii. People just need to reconnect to their heritage and take pride in it.
I'm from Bolivia, and in some cities the quechua it's widely used, but most of the bilingual people don't use it for their everyday talk, they use it mostly for teasing and joking, telling old traditional jokes, as a tiny example when your buddy's hair is turning gray you would say that snow has fallen over his head, as this has no relevance in Spanish and sounds only fun in Quechua, those sayings are kept untranslated
So it's being kept alive by the power of Inherently Funny Words? Fascinating. I think we have all previously observed there are just those words/phrses that sound funny and they're not the same in every language. Same problem when you try translating between, say, Spanish or English there's this one joke that hinges on the fact that "huesitos de repuesto" sounds funny which "replacement bones" simply doesn't.
"Las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien" cantaba Gardel ;u; Mi abuelo tenía dichos y juegos de palabras en otros idiomas, que cuando los traducía perdían la gracia, pero cuando no los traducía no se entendían... :D Ni ciuj lernu Esperanton, ĝi estas pli neŭtrala lingvo!
Pues recuerdo haber estudiado un poema con esa misma idea (en español) pero no sé si estará relacionado, no recuerdo el poema pero era de un español seguro
I loved this video. I think it was about time to speak about a non-european language after so much time, especially one that is so unknown outside of the Spanish speaking countries. I always find interesting to hear some Peruvians here in Spain when they speak in Quechua. My congratulations, Paul!
When I lived in Ecuador for 2 years, I spent 4 months in Otavalo. There they speak Kichwa(Quichua), just a different dialect. It was interesting to see the kids speak Spanish more often and the older people speak Kichwa. It would be sad to see these languages being forgot by the younger generations.
Quechua is such an elegant language! Thanks Paul for this excellent video, you outdid yourself. And I hope that Quechua makes a revival, perhaps like the Irish language did.
In fact there is a revival in the media at this moment. Now you can find videos in quechua. Now it is teaches in some Universities (inside and outside the country). Now peruvians are interested in their ancestors inkas.
OH MY GOD I am so surprised Quechua is like Turkish. The order of suffixes, sov, everything Paul mentioned in the video is SAME in Turkish. I am shocked i didn't expect that. But i love it :)
You could probably trace a common ancestor language if you went back far enough in time, but sadly there's no trail of written languages to follow. All anyone knows is that people migrated from Siberia across the Bering strait around 15000 years ago. That's 3 x All Chinese History ago so it's unsurprisingly difficult to definitively document. To be fair, it's sort of about as actually practically helpful as knowing English and Hindi both share a common ancestor in P.I.E., I mean we can't really do a lot with that information, and we can only guess what P.I.E. sounded like by watching how modern languages mutate in turn. But its still cool. I had a similar sort of feeling when I found out how similar in structure Turkish was with Japanese - since obviously to me, they are both spoken completely different from English, but very much like each other. It was just something that I completely hadn't given any thought to or would have even expected. It may be practically impossible to document a direct relationship between the two, but it seems almost impossible that they didn't share some ancient ancestry. Shame we all can't seem to get along all the time, huh
"Do you notice any features of Quechua that you've noticed in other languages." Yes, it's like Japanese if it marked subject on verbs and had directional suffixes, as I was thinking the whole time. A lot of lanugages (eg. spanish) inflect verbs for subject, and I know Aymara has suffixes for the direction and location of actions. Turkish (and apparently also Japanese) has evidentiality, and some other American languages have very complex evidentiality systems.
@@ahmetmuratcelik6806 Merhaba! Kazakh speaker here. Agree with you. The sentence structure and the order of suffixes is quite similar. But unfortunately we don't have topic and focus markers as Quechua has.
Hello! I am an indigenous woman from Apurimac - Peru. Answering your questions. I have been living in Spain for 14 years and I speak Quechua every day because I don't want to lose fluency, I do it when I talk to my mother or my grandmother. I love Quechua, I learned it from my great grandmother, who did not speak Spanish. Another thing that I find curious is that we don't use articles when we speak Quechua as it happens with Polish, and of course that it is an agglutinating language like German. Discovering these two characteristics surprised me a lot. Thanks for the video.
I know. I just thought mine played a decent part in the decision to make the video, as it was posted 2 weeks after my latest comment, with a lot of support behind the comment. Just glad its there in the end :P
It's amazing how you take your language for granted because all the rules are already stored in your head, and when you see the rules of a different language you find it so complicated. Yet the people who speak the other language has the same sensation about yours.
I find Quechua similar to Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, and Hungarian. Mostly from agglutination, however topic markers also popped out as similar. I haven't extensively studied any of the aforementioned languages, but I recognize the features.
Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are all related to each other as being members of the Fenno-Ugrian languages. Yes, the agglutination is an essential part of these languages. As it seems to be in Quechua too.
My grandfather speaks Quechua because he used to live in a little town in the Andes where Quechua was (or is, idk) the spoken language, and although he speaks Spanish with all of his relatives, he speaks it when he travels there. I would like to learn Quechua to preserve the native culture but I must admit that it seems kind of scary because words can be very long like in Finnish or Hungarian. Thanks for the video Paul!!
rimaykullayki, imaynallam kachkanki? aprende pe causa dile a tu hatun tayta que te enseñe no es difícil la verdad de ahí escríbeme y hablamos en quechua para que practiques, maymantataq kanki? cuando lo veas dile "allinllachu tayta?" a ver como se emociona rikunakusun.
Kayachimuwagringuimari (ecuadorian quichua) it means You definitely make him come over here, by making someone call him/her to me, - (or make him/her call me directly)
This is fascinating! Love it! A couple other notes on Quechua and usage: While most Quechua peoples live in the mountains, there are several that are jungle Quechuas in Ecuador as well as the Pastaza, San Martin, and a couple others in Peru (named for the departments (states) they live in. In Charapa (Peruvian Jungle Spanish) we use lots of Quechua words for plants and animals instead of the words you will find in Spanish dictionaries or encyclopedias. For example: carachupa instead of armadillo, mono coto (or just coto) instead mono aullador, cocha instead of lago or laguna, chacra instead of campo or jardin, etc.
I'm a spanish native speaker from Peru and what I can say is that we have a lot o quechua words in spanish too. For example "cancha" that is quechua for field and is used not only in Peru (in spanish that'd be "campo"). There's a lot of examples, in the peruvian spanish and I think also in ecuatorian and colombian spanish.
Ambas palabras vienen del quechua: kancha = palomitas de maíz hechas al estilo andino k'ancha = campo abierto (con el paso del tiempo el sonido k' se ha remplazado por k, actualmente solo puedes escuchar ese sonido en Cusco).
En México utilizamos la palabra cancha como cualquier otra palabra del español. Jamás se me hubiera ocurrido que era una palabra proveniente del quechua.
Yeah its a bit sad, but you have to keep in mind the majority of those speakers live in very rural areas with not much internet access so they are not rushing to upload their videos on youtube lol .
rzeka it's easier to find songs in Quechua. Look up los Kjarkas song yuyariway urpi or munasq'echay. they have several more (and at least one in Aymara called ukhamampi munataxa)
My wife is from Bolivia. Her dad (my father-in-law) grew up speaking Quechua. Both also speak Spanish fluently. Paul, you said that there are Spanish words that have bled into the Quechua language. That is also true with Quechuan words bleeding into the local dialect of Spanish. For example, the word "choclo" is the Quechuan word for "corn" and has taken the place for the standard Spanish word "maiz" or "elote" (in Mexico) in Bolivia, Peru and even in Argentina. Another word is "huahua". This is a Quechuan word that means "baby" or even "child" that has been adopted into the local Spanish of Bolivia. (As a side note: a huahua is a bus in Puerto Rico and Cuba). Languages, their development and influence over other languages are so fascinating! This is why I love your videos! Keep it up!
We usually call the corn "maíz" when we talk about the crop itself, but when used to refer as food, I mean the ear, is always choclo; the primarily Quechua-speaking people still call it "sara", though. And sure, there's a huge bunch of quechua/aymara words in Spanish when speaking of Andean countries, and not only in vocabulary; the "castellano andino" use some idioms and syntax from Quechua, hence some other Spanish speakers would say that people from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia talk "backward" because pretty often we place the predicate before the subject as in Quechua.
From Galiza: please don’t let your beautiful language die, speak it proud & as often as you could, at any social levels. You can be the change for its status, and it can begin now! 💪🏽🔥
Quechua's grammar sub + obj + verb is the same in Turkish language. And we have also suffixes as almost same with Quechua. Also we use the tense which is I heard sth and I am saying uncertainly
"Evidential Markers!" Amazing informational clues in the spoken word! WOW! Can you imagine??? just knowing from the sentence whether information is sure & primary & direct?, or if it is assumed, or if it is secondhand? wow! could we use that today in this mass media confusion & chaos!!!
The field of study that deals with the various methods for acquiring knowledge/information, such as direct observation, inference, etc. is called epistemology. The fact that Quechua essentially has epistemology BUILT IN to the language is really impressive and demonstrates how sophisticated the language is. How foolish is it that they would frame it as a "low class" language and make people feel ashamed of speaking it?
Susan McDonald If English had evidential markers, then people on social media would just stick the ending for THE TRUTH onto everything that their side said, and the ending for unreliable hearsay onto everything that the other side said.
This was a standard use of the subjunctive mode (contrasted with the indicative mode's declarative usage) in all Indo-European languages. It is still somewhat the case in how the subjunctive can be used in German, and can still be found in such phrasing in (American) English as the contrast between "if he was there" and "if he were there". There was even a third mode in earlier IE languages (like Classical Greek and Sanskrit), called the Optative, that was used to extend the subtlety.
Well as a Peruvian, Quechua is just there, people speak it in the highlands, we mostly speak Spanish though, I guess the government is trying to encourage its use but I don't know how is that working to be honest.
Hristo La Cotera more and more people on the universitys of Peru are learning this language, also the government of Peru have one channel only in Quechua were people can watch news and so on on this language, don't worry Quechua won't die.
Sergio Denis Roger that, first I just want that indigenous people get more help from the government in their villages. It's disgusting how can the government be OK with inequality of opportunities. Good for the universities.
I hope Quechua won't end up like the Irish language. The Irish reinstated their language back as an official language after centuries of English oppression but it is mostly neglected apparently just like what is happening to Quechua.
@@serginaru Having a single channel is a joke, this language should be the medium of instruction in all schools where Quechua is the indigenous language.
I was born and raised in the coast of Ecuador in Guayaquil (not a quechua zone) until I was 7. I never met in person some one who speaks actual quechua but there are many deep in the countryside and few cities in the mountains who speak quechua.
kev villa my grandmas from Guayaquil, my other grandparents are from Quito, my grandpa's dad was from latacunga and fluent in Quechua. But yeah the Inca fight conquer Guayaquil
Farfromhere001 its not mostly dead at all wtf? All over the sierra and amazon theres plenty of indigenous people who still speaking quichua. Guayaquil WAS NEVER CONQUERED BY THE INCA thats why there arent Quichua speakers there, not because native culture is dead in ecuador.
I was born and raised in Quito, and I hear Kichwa often in my city. Despite bilingual education efforts, it often happens that young people have just a passive knowledge of Kichwa, not only in Quito but also in some other regions and cities, like Tena. I think it's due to the influence of Spanish and people wanting to learn English more than Kichwa, since English is regarded as an access to a modern, progressive and international scene.
Hugo Robalino lmao where did you learn English? I'm Ecuadorian American born and raised in Usa, my parents born and raised in Usa too, and my vocabulary isn't nearly as big as yours lol good job to whoever taught you English
Wihout our native cultures we are nothing. I'm Chilean and I still think Peruvians have that more resolved than we do. The last time I was in Lima, as a tourist, they looked very proud...Thanks Paul, geat vid.
In Bolivia my parents speak aymara when they want to keep some secret from their sons, it's a shame that our languages for a long time were replaced by spanish, now we have to learn our own languages in schools as if we were foreigners, damn spanish ...!!!
In the early 1970s my cousin in Colorado spent time in Peru and got fairly fluent in Quechua. He organized a couple of student tours to an Andean village and wrote a basic Quechua grammar for his clients. I read it, and it was pretty interesting. He has to have been one of the few Americans to do anything like this.
Good work, congratulations to your cousin. But, Spainiard academic Antonio de Nebrija did the same to a larger extent 400-450 years prior during the Conquista.
This is so interesting. I’ve always been interested in the living cultures that colonization tried to stamp out, and I love hearing such in depth information on a language I’ve never heard because of it
My father spoke queshua even it's not his mother language but he learned it to speak with the people who worked with him. My queshua nickname was "carhuash peka" that means "yellow head" because my hair color was blond when I was a child!
I heard about Quechua, but didn't know how interesting it is. It's logical! And somewhat like the turkish group (I am excited about turkish "gapir-mai-di-lar" construct). But suffixes for information source! Wonderful!
I'm from Northern Argentina and we (those who don't speak quechua) use many quechua words in our everyday talk as part of our slang. The thing is most people don't know is actually quechua, I didn't know either until I started reading about the quechua language. For instance we use "mishi" as a slang word for cat and it actuality means cat in quechua! 😊 BTW your videos are awesome. 👍
Kevin Velásquez Yeah, in some parts of the Americas there were civilizations, but it was true in places as Brazil for exemple, there were definitely no civilization here, only wild tribes.
DJ KXNGSTON Pues peor para ti, sin España y Europa en general hubieseis seguido en un período de feudalismo y lenta evolución durante muchos siglos , hicimos mucho mal, pero también mucho bien, os abrimos al mundo construimos universidades y la vida de la población mejoró considerablemente a lo largo de toda centro y Sudamérica, deberías de estar como mínimo agradecido y tener un mínimo de respeto porque sin España ni Europa no estarías ahora hablando español ni tu vida sería igual ( piénsalo con detenimiento) Ten un poco de respeto y piensa antes de hablar porque estas faltando al respeto a 46 millones de personas y probablemente a algunos de tus antepasados ;)
Adrian Vozmediano La condición de vida mejoro solo para los criollos, el resto estaba sumido en la esclavitud hasta muchos siglos después cuando los mestizos empezaron a volverse mas relevantes, lo cual fue mucho despues de la independencia, ya que prácticamente los únicos que se independizaron de España eran los criollos que querían el poder de gobernar, y al haber nacido en América no podían.
Odiar a los españoles actuales por lo que hicieron sus tataratataratataraabuelos es cruel. Les recuerdo que no hay ni una civilización en le mundo que se haya hecho con paz y amor. Incluso los mismos indígenas se aliaban con los españoles para salir de la opresión de sus conquistadores ( Así cayo El imperio Inca y el Azteca). Un ejemplo: Los huancas ( tribu indigena del centro del Perú) se aliaron con los españoles, los cuales gracias a ellos los españoles vencen al ejercito inca. Los españoles condecoran a los huancas dandoles cargos públicos y prohibiendo los latifundios en tierras huancas. ademas de darle un escudo en agradecimiento. Asi como ellos, tambien se aliaron los chachapoyas, cañaris, chimues, chancas. Lo mismo ocurrio en Mexico con los aztecas.
I went to Cusco and everyone I asked about Quechua was very happy to tell me about it. Even though we had to communicate largely in Spanish, one taxi driver was overjoyed that I was interested in his language and told me many words and phrases including ' Does your llama spit?' hahaha I can imagine the situation is different in Lima and other areas but in the Sacred Valley I certainly got the impression that the language lives!
Wow! I'm very thankful for this video that explains the grammar of Queshwa or Runa Simi in a brief but effective way. Soy peruano y este año quiero mejorar mi conocimiento del idioma de mis ancestros. Thank you very very much sir for taking your time to make such wonderful videos. I really appreciate the effort and dedication you put into it!
Isn't "wa" a topic marker and "ga" a Focus marker. I would translate the example from the video as だれが家を建てましたか。ピルヅさんが建てました。Dare-ga uchi-o tatemasita ka. Pirdusan-ga tatemashita.
Some Peruvian tourists told me that government claims that quechua is an official language supported by the government on paper, but in real life everything is in Spanish
I found this very interesting and helpful in understanding the language. I am learning Kichwa from two brothers native to Ecuador. Understanding the sentence structure has been confusing at time but your explanation has clarified a lot of that.
The notion of high and low status languages is interesting. In the late '60s here in Houston it was difficult to find young people who admitted to speaking Spanish. I remember once asking my brother's friend Roberto to say some words in Spanish. He said he couldn't speak Spanish. At that moment his grandmother shouted something to him in Spanish. He replied to her in Spanish, then again said he could not speak it. Now, of course, being bilingual is considered an asset,
Awesome video! Thank you very much! Quechua is indeed a fascinating language :) I just wanted to make some remarks. For educational purposes, maybe it is better not to mix regional/social varieties of Quechua in the same phrases: - The focus marker is /m/ in Quechua. In Cuzco they pronounce it as [n] because final /m/ has an allophone in [n] in Cuzco, so /pim/ is actually pronounced [pin]. So, students may find it hard to understand why the question is "piN..." while the answer is "PirduM". - Same with the progressive suffix -sa-, which was later written as -sha-. The proto-form is -chka-, which in Cuzco evolved to -shka-, and further to -sha-. What actually happens is that there are two subdialects of Cuzco Quechua: the misti (creole) and the runa (indigenous). While runakuna keep pronouncing -sha-, the mistikuna lost the distinction between /s/ and /sh/, so the suffix is pronounced as [sa]. It might be better not to mix both. For both examples, Southern Unified Quechua writes -m(i) for the focus marker and -chka for the progressive suffix. Also, Quechua has 3 vocalic phonemes: a, i, u. But /i/ has an allophone in [e] close to /q/, that is why /uyarirqani/ sounds like [uyarerqani]. But, again, the standard written form is . And just a detail: the cacophony of -ku-kuna is always avoided, so ñanninkukuna* is not correct, it should be ñanninkuna. Context will determine whether it is "his roads" or "their roads". Or the use of a possessive form: paypa ñanninkuna (his road), paykunap ñanninkuna (their roads). Again, awesome video and thanks!
I never knew that Mishi was a cat in Quechua. It is very common to hear people in Ecuador calling their cats Mishis, without thinking that they are saying a word in Quechua. Thanks for teaching me that.
But of course if you dig into it deeper, you see the major differences between these languages, you can't just go by some sound similarities or similarities between basic grammar concepts, you have to dig deeper
