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Quechua DialectsJust as Navajo is the largest Native speech community in North America, Quechua (in all its dialects) is the largest Native speech community in South America. Quechua is spoken from Colombia to Chile on the western side of South America, but primarily in Bolivia and Peru. It is my wish and desire to produce another bilingual version of the present booklet, this time in Spanish and Quechua. In Bolivia, Cochabamba Quechua and related dialects have over 2.5 million speakers. In Peru, Cuzco Quechua has 1.5 million speakers. |
Monolinguals
The temptation in any place that has people to reach for Christ who speak something other than the national language, is to reach them using the national language. That is all well and good if they speak the national language in addition to their own. In both Cochabamba Quechua (Bolivia) and Cuzco Quechua (Peru) the proportion of monolingual speakers is about 1 in 3. Under such circumstances it is not only desirable, but necessary, to use the Native language for outreach.