The Language of the Inka Since the European InvasionThe Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532 1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently known about the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing new insights into the nature of language change in general,