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Definition of Kechuan

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Quechua or their language.

2. Noun. The language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kechuan

Keara Kearney Kearns Kearns-Sayre syndrome Keating-Hart Keating-Hart's method Keaton Keatonesque Keats Keatsian

Keavy Keb Kebecois Keble Kechua Kechuan Kecskemét Kedah Kedaung Kali Angke Keddie

Keddy Keegan Keeley Keelin Keelung Keen Keen's operation Keen's sign Keene Keene's cement

Literary usage of Kechuan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"Dr. Patron says, " Leprosy has remained an unknown thing to the native born of Peru, as is evidenced by the lack of a word for leprosy in the kechuan and ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"He aims to demonstrate from proper names that it is not kechuan in its affinities. His arguments are drawn from a full investigation of existing fragments ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... or kechuan family, including the Aymaran, occupied a strip of upland two thousand miles long on the Pacific slope of South America, all parts of which ..."

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