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llama

Llama is simply the Quechua name of the Andean pack animal, taken over by the Spanish conquerors of Peru and passed on from Spanish to the rest of Europe and to Japan.

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The story you may have heard

That a Spaniard asked '¿Cómo se llama?' ('What is it called?') and the locals repeated 'llama'. It is a joke: llama is the animal's ordinary Quechua name.

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