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Bolivia is a country of 12 million people, many of them members of the Aymara and Quechua indigenous groups living in the high mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“Pancho started giving us these very specific, not only slang, but also Quechua words and things that would make it feel very specifically Ecuadorean,” Cordova says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Quechua is the name for a family of Indigenous languages that spread from Peru to other neighboring countries.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

From there the Princess will head to Qoricancha, or “The Golden Temple” in Quechua language, considered the most important - and most sacred - temple by the Incas.

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2023

I am almost inclined to find a trace of a similar association in the Quechua word for fingers=pallca and the title palla bestowed upon noble women.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia