Eight to ten million people still speak the tongue of Tawantinsuyu — the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas.
The Quechua are the Indigenous peoples of the Andes whose language — Quechua, or Runasimi, “the people’s speech” — was the administrative tongue of the Inca Empire. Some 8 to 10 million people speak Quechua today across Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Chile, making it the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas.
