Peruvian

This is a geographical rather than a philological term. The Peruvian area, nearly coinciding with the present republic of Peru, reaches along the coast from the north of Quito, on the boundaries of the Ecuador and New Grenada, to Chili, i.e. from the Equator to 24° S.L. Its most eastern extension is in Tucuman; its general run, however, is from north to south. The two (allied) languages which most especially belong to it are the Quichua and Aymara . Notices of ruder tribes within the same area we have many, but with few and exceptional vocabularies. Juracares , May or una , and Calchaqui , Atacama , Changos . Lopez: “ Les races Aryenne de Peru ,” 1872.     R. G. L.