About the origin of the Quechua language


    As it is known, in 1560 Europe learnt a new word from a book written by Domingo de Santo Tomas. This word was
    the Quechua.  Since then it means a language, a tribe and also a culture, even though the natives name their
    own language Runa Simi (the Language of the People), and themselves as Runakuna  (People).
    Many theories were born about the origin of this language. Earlier they said it origins from the Middle of Peru,
    where the Quechua tribe lived before they were conquered by the Incas. According to the latest version the
    approximately 4500-4600 year-old ancient city, Caral, in Peru’s central coast could have been the cradle of the
    Quechua - just to mention two possibilities.
    But these statements make me think… When they say “could have been”, they are just guessing…  I don’t
    understand,why the scientists try to find the origin of the Quechua (or the origin of any other Native American
    Indian language) on the American continent, when it is already an accepted and proved fact that America (North
    and South) was absolutely uninhabited! A language belongs to the people and originates from the people who
    speak that! America’s natives did not arrived dumbly to the new land!!! They arrived bringing their own
    language!!! So the question is where the Native American Indian tribes came from? Where and what other tribes
    they lived with BEFORE? If we can give the right answer, we will find the real cradle of their languages or at least
    we can get closer with some steps to the truth.
    I have to tell, that since my early childhood I was always interested in the life of the Native American Indians,
    respected their wisdom, the way how they lived together with the nature. Something touched me very-very deeply,
    and this feeling was unexplainable… there was something that made me feel very close to these people…  Then I
    didn’t know why…
    But something happened some years ago. I got Quechua grammar books. I started to read them and soon I got
    shocked… and I knew I found the answer for my feelings…
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