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The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know

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The Incan Empire and the Inka Empire

Ketu is a very major language, probably spoken by around ten million people still to day. It s the major language of the inca empire and was spread long before them. There are colonial accounts of theinca having spoken a secret language. One possibility is that it included pukina. But i think they were pretty good linguists, and they picked up spanishpretty quickly when the spanish arrived.

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