Word "flag" in Quechua

Last modified: 2025-06-19 by antónio martins
Keywords: unancha | unanchakuna | unanca | unancakuna | bandira |
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unancha

• Overview
• Word " unancha "
• Word " unanchakuna "
• Word " ᚛ᚖᚁᚕᚁᚈᚕ᚜ "
• Word " ᚛ᚖᚁᚕᚁᚈᚕᚆᚖᚁᚕ᚜ "
• Word " bandira "
• Word " ᚛ᚉᚕᚁᚔᚗᚒᚕ᚜ "

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Overview

The (Aymara) word for "flag", "wiphala", is used in Quechua to refer specifically to any of the seven colored Inca flags — both the the rainbow Twantinsuyu flag and any of the 7×7 chequered flags of its nominal “four quarters”. (Evidence of this is the Quechua Wikipedia article about these flags.)
António Martins, 27 Mai 2008

Word " unancha "

Word:

unancha

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*unancha

Meaning:

flag

Identicals:

1 other wordform

External links:

• Quechua Wikipedia article about unancha
• in the English Wikitionary

As far as I can tell, "wiphala" is indeed the regular Aymara word for "flag", while "unancha" is the regular Quechua word for "flag". (Evidence of this is the Aymara Wikipedia article about the flag of Bolivia and the Quechua Wikipedia article about flags.)
António Martins, 27 Mai 2008

It means also "sign" (i.a. in "qillqa unancha", "punctuation signs") and is cognate with "sanancha", meaning "symbol". (Source: Quechua Wikipedia)
António Martins, 16 Apr 2009

Word " unanchakuna "

Word:

unanchakuna

Script:

Latin

Variant:

plural of "unancha"

Word " ᚛ᚖᚁᚕᚁᚈᚕ᚜ "

Word:

᚛ᚖᚁᚕᚁᚈᚕ᚜

Transliteration:

unanca

Script:

Ogham

Variant:

less common orthography form of "unancha"

Remarks:

khipu script

Word " ᚛ᚖᚁᚕᚁᚈᚕᚆᚖᚁᚕ᚜ "

Word:

᚛ᚖᚁᚕᚁᚈᚕᚆᚖᚁᚕ᚜

Transliteration:

unancakuna

Script:

Ogham

Variant:

less common orthography form of "unanchakuna"

Remarks:

khipu script

Word " bandira "

Word:

bandira

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*band-

Meaning:

flag (other)

Identicals:

4 other wordforms

Word " ᚛ᚉᚕᚁᚔᚗᚒᚕ᚜ "

Word:

᚛ᚉᚕᚁᚔᚗᚒᚕ᚜

Transliteration:

bandira

Script:

Ogham

Variant:

less common orthography form of "bandira"

Remarks:

khipu script

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