Quechuan languages
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Quechua, also called Runa simi in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancest
Vocabulary of the general language of the Indians of Peru, called Quichua (1560). From Domingo de Santo Tomás, the first writer in Quechua.
Act of Argentine Independence, written in Spanish and Quechua (1816)
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, wh
Portrait of Garcilaso de la Vega, engraved by Carlos Penoso, 1879
Statue of Garcilaso in Villa Borghese gardens, Rome
House of Garcilaso de la Vega in Cusco, Peru, in 1877
House of Garcilaso in Montilla, during his time in Spain