I just want to recommend our Quechua Discord Server to people as it is hard to find Native Quechua Speakers or sources online in English. Our server offers 1v1 conversation and translation in Quechua. Here is the link: https://discord.com/invite/za3zHzgh4s
It can be hard to find resources for learning Quechua or resources written/spoken in the language so I thought it would be cool to create a website that acts as a directory with links to every Quechua resource I can find. I want this to include as many resources as possible (to be as useful as possible), so Iβve made the project open source and anyone can contribute on GitHub.
All you need to get involved is some knowledge of HTML and/or CSS. You can also contribute to the documentation on GitHub or in any other way you would like to. Most of the work will be adding website content (writing in resource titles and providing links to where they can be found online), so this project could be a great starting point for someone new to web development or contributing to open source.
https://github.com/poetsec/quechua-library is the link to the repository. The website isnβt live yet, but as soon as a decent amount of content is added Iβll put it up.
Hello, I am INTJ, I study Languages, and sometimes those Languages are strikingly similiar to the way certain types think and talk. Why do I think Quechua is INTP you ask? Well just look at this quote from Wikipedia about how the Language functions...
"By using evidentials, the Quechua culture has certain assumptions about the information being relayed. Those who do not abide by the cultural customs should not be trusted. A passage from Weber (1986) summarizes them nicely below:
- (Only) one's experience is reliable.
- Avoid unnecessary risk by assuming responsibility for information of which one is not absolutely certain.
- Do not be gullible. There are many folktales in which the villain is foiled by his gullibility.
- Assume responsibility only if it is safe to do so. Successful assumption of responsibility builds stature in the community."
I think you can see that calling quechua INTP is not a stretch
By the way evidentials means just as you conjugate Verbs based on tense (essentially by time) in Quechua you conjugate by the evidence you have for something. Specifically, verbs are marked for whether you got the information from seeing it yourself, from inferring it, or hearing it from another person. Also, like Latin, there is free word order so you can say words in any order you want.
Also, since someone asked for it (this is a work in progress)
INTJ - Arabic
Quechua - INTP
? - ENTJ
? - ENTP
Japanese - INFJ
Nahuatl - INFP
Korean - ENFJ
All of the Romance Languages - ENFP
? - ISTJ
Russian - ISTP
? - ESTJ
ENGLISH - ESTP
? - ISFJ
All the Chineses - ESFJ
All of the Languages of the Pacific Islands - ISFP
? - ESFP
I'm doing a little research for school right now and I'm looking for native speakers (or fluent speakers) of the following languages to fill out my survey: Arabic, Bengali, Dutch, Icelandic, Japanese, Mandarin, Quechua, Russian, Swahili, or Spanish. The survey takes two minutes at most. It would help me a lot if you would fill out my survey or share it with someone who speaks one of these languages. https://forms.gle/ZbMpo9UWt9NjJBf2A
If so, how much of a difference?
Not sure if this question is specific enough to qualify, but here goes nothing:
So, Spain's first American colonies right after Columbus's "discovery" were in the Caribbean, right in the Taino homeland. Before they acquired the rest of what is now Central and South America, they spent 2-3 decades interacting with the Taino. But, when the Aztecs and Incas were conquered, many priests soon learned and published books in their languages. I know those two peoples had larger and more populous empires, but the Spanish still spent a while with the Tainos, which would make sense to learn a bit of the language.
As far as I know, there are no books dealing with the Taino from that period. I know some words and basic grammar were recorded, but not enough that an entire textbook or chronicle was published.
`Hello!
I'm a graduate student working on my master's thesis about the study of Quechua as a second language in the United States. Anyone who has an interest in learning Quechua (or has studied Quechua) is encouraged to take this survey. I am really interested in learning more about how we teach indigenous languages in the US and why people want to learn Quechua. I would really appreciate it if you took 10-15 minutes to fill out my survey! :) Please feel free to share it with anyone else who may be interested and let me know if you have any questions. Thank you so much!
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 42%. (I'm a bot)
> A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in Quechua - the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes.
> Scholars say it is the first time in the university's 468-year history that a student has written and defended a thesis entirely in the native language - even though it is the most widely spoken indigenous tongue in South America, used by about 8 million people, half of them in Peru.
> "Quechua doesn't lack the vocabulary for an academic language. Today many people mix the language with Spanish," she said.
> "I hope my example will help to revalue the language again and encourage young people, especially women, to follow my path. It's very important that we keep on rescuing our original language."
> Quispe Collantes's doctoral adviser Gonzalo Espino said her presentation was hugely symbolic because the language "Represented the most humble people in this part of the world: the Andeans, who were once called 'Indians'. Their language and culture has been vindicated."
> Peru has joined a global effort to register indigenous names as part of the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, which is trying to help revive 2,680 at-risk indigenous languages around the world - 21 of which are native to Peru.
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... keep reading on reddit β‘Quechua is a Native American language from South America, and since resources to learn the language (or online content in the language) can be confusing or difficult to find for learners, I'm creating a website that acts as a directory to every resource I can find online. I've made the project open source on GitHub and am looking for people to help me find resources for Quechua learners and add them to the website to make the list as comprehensive and useful as possible. You do not need any knowledge of the Quechua language to help contribute. You only need to be able to find websites, courses, audio, video etc. about the Quechua language and be able to add them into the HTML of the site.
All you need to contribute to the project is some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. You can also contribute to the documentation on GitHub or in any other way you would like to. Since much of the work needing to be done involves finding resources and adding them to the website (writing in resource titles and providing links to where they can be found online), this project is great for someone new to web development or just starting out with contributing to open source.
