clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> And still this did not wipe out the entire population of the former Inca
> empire; they lived on as subjects of the Spanish crown, and still
> constitute part of the Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilenian, Colombian,
> Ecuadorian and Peruvian population, together with their old language,
> Quechua.

Aymara, the main language that predated the Incas, is still spoken by about 1/5
of Bolivian people.  It is the major language of La Paz, other than Spanish.
(Try to picture an American near-monoglot like me, trying to communicate with a
saleslady who speaks Aymara/Quechua, but no Spanish, via her granddaughter who
speaks Spanish, but no English.  BTW, 8-year-old kids there know the English
word for "dinero," and they know the exchange rate!)  Bolivia has 37 official
languages (according to Wikipedia; I was told 38 when I visited there), all
except one of which are indigenous languages.

(Our tour guide was a German expat, BTW.)

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"Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> > And still this did not wipe out the entire population of the former Inca
> > empire; they lived on as subjects of the Spanish crown, and still
> > constitute part of the Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilenian, Colombian,
> > Ecuadorian and Peruvian population, together with their old language,
> > Quechua.
>
> Aymara, the main language that predated the Incas, is still spoken by about 1/5
> of Bolivian people.  It is the major language of La Paz, other than Spanish.
> (Try to picture an American near-monoglot like me, trying to communicate with a
> saleslady who speaks Aymara/Quechua, but no Spanish, via her granddaughter who
> speaks Spanish, but no English.  BTW, 8-year-old kids there know the English
> word for "dinero," and they know the exchange rate!)  Bolivia has 37 official
> languages (according to Wikipedia; I was told 38 when I visited there), all
> except one of which are indigenous languages.
>
> (Our tour guide was a German expat, BTW.)

First I'm puzzled that no one recognized my typo about Hitlers doings. He
slaughtered some 29 million people and not 9 million. With slaughter I mean the
killing of people which are not or not sufficiently able to defend themselves.
Like the Inka against the guiles and the guns of Pizarro. The figure of 50
million dead Inka I have from a german TV documentation (Terra X) but I cannot
figure out which one so fast.

Best regards,
Michael

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