Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]

Anotations

Scope note:

Family of languages of the former Inca Empire in South America and the principal native languages of the central Andes today. The original languages were probably spoken in a small area in the southern Peruvian highlands; after ca. 1450 the language was spread by the Inca conquests.