Was Quechua the Incas' original language

Quechua was not a single language created by the Incas

Quechua was already a group of related languages and was widely used in parts of the Andes before the Inca Empire expanded. The Incas then helped spread it to more regions. Quechua languages are still widely spoken today.

9,000-year-old Chinese flutes were made to play specific notes

Bone flutes from the ancient Chinese settlement of Jiahu were made carefully enough to produce particular musical notes. Their makers therefore appear to have understood how to shape an instrument to control its sound.

Cretan place-names helped decode Linear B

Michael Ventris noticed that some sign combinations appeared only on tablets from Crete. He thought they might be Cretan place-names, and that clue helped him identify Linear B as a script for writing Greek, against the prevailing view that it was not Greek.

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Was Quechua the Incas' original language

Quechua was not a single language created by the Incas

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