The Quechua people speak Quechua, a family of closely related Indigenous languages that originated in the Andes and spread widely during the Inca empire. Today Quechua remains one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the Americas, with millions of speakers across several countries. It exists in multiple regional varieties and is recognized as an official language in Peru and Bolivia.
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