Talk:Túpac Amaru

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Discussion 3 incorrect death... 4 Translation of the name

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

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[edit] Discussion

This article was moved to "Tupaq Amaru"; I moved it back because nearly all links and the article itself used "Túpac". Getting statistics on the most common spelling is difficult since Google hits for Tupac Shakur interfere, but even so "Tupaq" gets only 888 hits compared to 114,000 for "'tupac amaru' -shakur", suggesting "Túpac" is indeed the most common name. JRM · Talk 09:38, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

good move :) --Dynamax 21:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Both spellings are "correct." These are transcriptions of Quechua names into a European script. "Túpac" is the colonial Spanish spelling, and is the more common one because he lived during colonial Spanish times. "Tupaq" is the modern Quechua spelling. Quechua distinguishes between "k" (pronounced similar to k in English) and "q" (pronounced similarly but at the back of the throat). Spanish does not make this distinction, so both the k and the q sound end up as "c" (or "qu" before e and i -- e.g. Yupanki > Yupanqui) in Spanish transciptions. --Potosino 03:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

The death of Titu Cusi is recorded as occurring in 1570 on this page, but on the Titu Cusi page it says he died in 1571. Which is it? --72.140.146.246 00:56, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

It's 1571; I corrected. Llajwa 22:04, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] incorrect death...

Tupac Amaru I and Tupac Amaru II were both, in actuality, brutally drawn and quartered. With it, Toledo crushed burgeoning Inca Nationalism.

[edit] Translation of the name

The translation of the name is a bit misleading, afaik amaru is the name of an incan god, a god of wisdom, who is also a serpent