I was walking down the chic street of Lastarriat in Santiago Chile where many artists and sellers perform. I heard this man singing and I stopped in my tracks I had no idea what he was singing or what language, but I had to stop it was so beautiful and raw, at last he told me and went on with his performance and I graciously stepped out of his way.  That day I fell in love with Quechua language.

Quechua /ˈkɛtʃwə/, also known as runa simi (“people’s language”), is an indigenous language family, with variations spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America.^[3] Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken language family of indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably some 8–10 million speakers.^[4]Approximately 13% of Peruvians speak Quechua.^{[5][better source needed]} It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language of the Inca Empire, and was disseminated by the colonizers throughout their reign.