Nationless: The Quechua

Second largest language group in the world that has no country, after the Kurds.

Quechua is a language of the people who migrated to the American continents by land in the many thousands of years before permanent trans-oceanic contact was made by Italians funded by Spain in the late 1400s of the common era.

Quechua is the only language with a multi-million population of any of the Eskimo-Aleut, Na-Dene or Amerindian language families. The language has many dozens of dialects.

Like the Kurds , and the Hmong, the strongest centers of Quechua are in the mountains. Geography prevented the Spanish from subjugating them in the same way they did the indigenous peoples in other areas.