Inti Raymi SF 2010

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• Cultural Notes | Inti Raymi SF 2010 | Page 2

  May 26, 2010 It is commonly believed that “Quechua” refers to a single language, but in reality, this word refers to an entire family of diverse languages native to South America.  Ethnologue identifi...

• English | Inti Raymi SF 2010

  Posts about English written by Ergative, Jessica Cleary-Kemp, elisabethwehling, joshua, John, Will Chang, labeka, and kwoniks

• Inti Raymi – A brief history of the “Festival of the Sun” | Inti Raymi SF 2010

  Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, was a religious ceremony during the Inca Empire in honor of Inti, the god of the sun. In Quechua, Inti Raymi means “resurrection of the sun” or “the path of the su...

• Quechua numbers and their traditional social associations | Inti Raymi SF 2010

  Quechua number names are commonly used in figures of speech, puns, idioms, and metaphors, which means they are given additional cultural meaning through their frequent use in informal discourse (conve...

• Saying Hello at Inti Raymi | Inti Raymi SF 2010

  If you’re coming to Inti Raymi, you will want to know a few basic phrases to say hello to your hosts - not to mention thanking them for the fantastic food. So here are a handful of greetings and pleas...

• Basic Vocabulary | Inti Raymi SF 2010

  Here are some Quechua words to get you started. They are from the variety of Quechua spoken in the Imbabura province of Ecuador, which is called Imbabura Quichua. Quechua speakers also call their lang...