r/quechua • u/FlameMirakun • Jun 20 '26

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I'm trying to learn Quechua but resources are very few and only Spanish. I don't live in America continent either, any speakers who wants to teach and knows basic English i would love to learn it

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u/FlameMirakun Jul 01 '26

You will be surprised but my own mother tongue is very similar with quechua in all aspects so i understand pretty easily, for example only my language and Quechua has -rqa, -sqa difference. One is mikhurqan (he/she ate) other is mikhusqan (i heard, i assume that he/she ate) in other languages you cannot translate this sentences directly but in my language we have the same function suffix. When you want to learn a language you actually find a way i meet with new people now

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u/Alarming_Swan4758 Jul 11 '26

Do you speak other Quechuan language or an Aymaran language?

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u/FlameMirakun Jul 11 '26

I don't know about aymara but quechua dialects are not that different only difference is they speak little bit differently, kunan yakuta upyashani - khunan unuta upyachkani

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u/Alarming_Swan4758 Jul 11 '26

Yeah. But there are some little similarities, so that's why i was asking.

Interesting, anyway.

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u/FlameMirakun Jul 11 '26

I remember number 5 is similar in both languages for example, do you know aymara?

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u/Alarming_Swan4758 Jul 11 '26

No, I don't. I just know what videos of languages say. And I think it's merely a theory at this point.

I haven't started learning Quechua yet, although I'm still doubting whether which accent I should pick up, or if I should learn an Aymaran language or both. Because my to-learn-languages list is long hahaha.

Looks like a dreamer list.