Cara and Ed focus on South America this episode! We discuss the major languages of South America, but then shift our focus on to the indigenous language of Quechua, with its approximately 8.5 million speakers, it is a major language in its own right. Enjoy and PLEASE VOTE!

 

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Sources:

https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/indigenous-languages-of-south-america/

https://www.gviusa.com/blog/quechua-the-surviving-language-of-the-inca-empire/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXqw24wQHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXj28dXPAU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages

Spanish as a Second Language when L1 is Quechua: Endangered languages and the SLA Research by Susan E. Kalt