1560 - Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

, Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

 around 1620) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, researcher of the Quechua language during the times of the Viceroyalty of Peru

Viceroyalty of Peru

Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru was a Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima...

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Arrived to Peru as missionary in 1581 and studied during 25 years the Quechua language in the city of Cusco

Cusco

Cusco , often spelled Cuzco , is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cuzco Province. In 2007, the city had a population of 358,935 which was triple the figure of 20 years ago...

. By 1607 published in Lima his Grammar and arts of the general language of Peru, a year later the Vocabulary of the general language of the entire Peru, the first dictionary of the Quechua of Cusco

Cusco Quechua

Cusco Quechua is a dialect of the Southern Quechua language, more specifically Qusqu-Qullaw Quechua, spoken in city and the department of Cusco....

. According with the numbers registered by Domingo de Santo Tomás

Domingo de Santo Tomás

Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, O.P. was a Spanish Dominican and grammarian who compiled the first Quechua grammar....

 it was the second most important work about the Quechua language.

Works

• Gramatica y arte nueva dela lengva general de todo el Perv, llamada lengva Qquichva, o Lengva del Inca, 1607 Grammar of the Classical Inca Quechua of the colonial times. The Quechua of the Cusco as was spoken in the Inca Court (Lima, 1607)
• Vocabulario de la lengva general de todo el Perv llamada lengva Qquichua o del Inca El Quechua Cortesano del Cuzco (Lima, 1608)
• Privilegios concedidos a los Indios (Lima, 1608)