Quellimane.

African: dialect of the Mozambique.

Quengues.

American: same as Cayuga.

Queres, see [Keres].

Quiche, Kiche.

American: Maya language of Guatemala; dialects are Cachiquel and Sutugil. Grammar by De Bourbourg, Paris, 1862.

Quichua, Kechhua.

American: native dialect of Peru, formerly spoken by the Incas, and still vernacular along the W. course of the Andes. A dialect is called Chinchaysayo. Analogies with Sanskrit suggested by Lopez. Grammars by Markham, London, 1864; by Tschudi, Vienna, 1853.

⁂ Allied to Aymara, Panos, and Pacaguayra. H. C. ☞