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Language code: que

Technical information about ISO 639 language code que

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The table below provides technical details for the Quechua language, designated by the que code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

que

Name

Official

Quechua

Native

Runa Simi

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central Quechua (Quechua I)Northern Quechua (Quechua II-A)Southern Quechua (Quechua II-B)North Peruvian Quechua (Quechua II-C)
Related languages
Cusco QuechuaEcuadorian KichwaAyacucho QuechuaAymara
Key facts
Was the lingua franca of the Inca Empire and remains the most widely spoken indigenous language in the AmericasEmploys a three-vowel system (a, i, u) with e and o appearing mainly in Spanish loanwordsAgglutinative morphology lets long strings of suffixes convey tense, person, evidentiality and moreObligatory evidential markers show whether information is witnessed, inferred or reportedRich oral tradition includes epic poetry, myths and harawi love songs.
Sample phrase

¡Rimaykullayki, ¿imayna kashanki?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Quechua language, identified by the code que, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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