Even through Spanish is the primary language of 90% of Ecuadorians, over two million still speak another official language — Kichwa, an Ecuadorian form of Quechua, which is the most widely spoken of all indigenous language groups in South America. Linguists call Quechua a “language group” rather than a language because there are so many variants that are similar in many ways but also sometimes unintelligible to one another.
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