Kechua

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Kech·ua

(kĕch′wə, -wä′)

Variant of Quechua.

Kechua

(ˈkɛtʃwə)

(Peoples) a variant of Quechua

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Noun	1.	Kechua - a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire Quechua South American Indian - a member of a native Indian group in South America Incan, Inka, Inca - a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
	2.	Kechua - a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire Quechua
	3.	Kechua - the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas Kechuan, Quechuan, Quechuan language, Quechua American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

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Our author bases this claim on Pablo Patron's Origen del kechua y del aymara (1900), supporting his affirmation with evidence from other scholars: the seventeenth-century figures Gregorio Garcia and Andres Rocha, who saw connections to Israel; Prince's contemporary Rudolph Falb, for whom Quechua and Aymara evinced Semitic origins; Friedrich Max Muller, who found correspondences between Quechua and Turkish--which is logical, Prince affirms, since Franyois Lenormant and Fritz Hommel have demonstrated Sumerian's close affinity to the language of Turkey; and Enrique Onffroy de Thoron and Emeterio Villamil de Rada, for whom humankind's first language was, respectively, Quechua or Aymara.