Language code: qu
Technical information about ISO 639 language code qu
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The table below provides technical details for the Quechua language, designated by the qu code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Quechua Native Runa Simi |
| Family | Quechuan |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Central Quechua (Quechua I)Northern Quechua (Quechua II-A)Southern Quechua (Quechua II-B)Bolivian Quechua (Quechua II-C) |
| Related languages | AymaraJaqaruKawkiChipaya |
| Key facts | Agglutinative structure builds long words from stacked suffixesobligatory evidential markers show whether information is witnessed, hearsay, or inferredphoneme inventory has only three contrastive vowels /a i u/ that surface with many allophonesvocabulary contributed internationally known words like “condor,” “quinoa,” and “puma”served as the lingua franca of the Inca realm, spreading far beyond its original heartland. |
| Sample phrase | Rimaykullayki, allillanchu? |
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Quechua belongs to the Quechuan language family. It is an indigenous language of the Quechua people, primarily used in the Andes region of South America, especially in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 7 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Quechua speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ