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Encyclopedia > Quechuan and Aymaran spelling shift
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In recent years, the spelling of place names in Peru and Bolivia has been revised among Quechua and Aymara speakers. Quechua (Standard Quechua, Runasimi Language of People) is an Native American language of South America. ... Aymara is the name of a South-American people and of their language. ...


The major changes are to replace both the consonants c and q[u] with a k and replace the digraph hu with the single letter w. This is considered to be part of a general growth of pride in the Andean heritage of these countries. These spelling changes have not yet been made official, but today Bolivia is a multicultural country, and in La Paz radio is broadcast in 12 languages. Digraph has several meanings: Directed graph, or digraph Digraph (orthography) Digraph (computing) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The word Andean refers to the geographic area in and around the Andes Mountains of South America, and to the indigenous peoples that inhabit the area, such as the Inca. ... Multiculturalism or cultural pluralism is a policy, ideal, or reality that emphasizes the unique characteristics of different cultures in the world, especially as they relate to one another in immigrant receiving nations. ... Central La Paz La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of La Paz Department. ...


Additionally, the inventories of the Quechuan and Aymaran alphabets do not employ the vowels o or e, but Spanish and English orthography of Quechuan and Aymaran loan words often represent them with said vowels. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ...

old spelling | new spelling | phonetic English | phonetic Spanish
cuy quwi kuy cuy
Qosqo Qusqu Cusco Cusco
Tiahuanaco Tiwanaku teewanaku Tihuanaco

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History of the Inca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1735 words)
Before the Quechua spelling reform it was written in Spanish as Tahuantinsuyo.
Tawantin is a group of four things (tawa "four" with the suffix -ntin which names a group); suyu means "region" or "province".
Before the official orthography, during the use of hispanic spellings, it was written as tahuantinsuyo.
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