Word: quechua
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Today, housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most of the Peruvian Indians. Although it has no literature, it is written down in a few hieroglyphics on prehistoric buildings, will be taught to scholars...