mama qucha

mama qucha = sea in Quechua

Etymology: “mama” (mother) + “qucha” (lake)

My first contact with the Quechua language was back in the 90s, well before the internet era, when I bought in an antiquarian bookshop an old student book on Quechua. My eyes were wide with amazement. First time in my life I thought that to learn a language within the same language family as your native language is a piece of cake but to learn a language that is linguistically much more distant is a real achievement and would need a change in thinking.

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