Word: quechua
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...Philippines' Ilocano, Peru's Quechua...
Arequipa came to think that Tia Bates was as monumental and enduring as El Misti, but last week she was dead of uremia and old age (almost 85). Indians and whites crowded Quinta Bates to mourn. Said a weeping Quechua: "She was like charapa the land turtle-hard outside, tender inside...
...East. Brutal as any contrast of geography or industry is the cultural chasm between Bolivia's Indians and the whites and mestizos of the cities. The Indians, the vast majority of Bolivia's 3,200,000 inhabitants, live quite outside the national economy, even speaking Aymara or Quechua instead of Spanish. At home on the high, forbidding plateau since before the time of the Incas, they have developed oversize lungs to be able to live and work, dance madly and play reed pipes, get drunk and breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants are simple...
Puny on the Plain. Four centuries after the Spanish conquest, perhaps four out of seven million Peruvians still live in the Andes, speak the Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion of cane alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. But the pressure for land has increased, and the ancient farming ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo...
Spanish and English in addition to their own staccato Aymara or liquid Quechua...