Huaylas Quechua is an

Ancash Quechua Ancash Quechua, or Huaylay (Waylay), is a Quechua variety spoken in the Peruvian department of Ancash by approximately 1,000,000 people. Like Wanka Quechua, it belongs to Quechua I (according to Alfredo Torero). Classification The Ancash Que ...

dialect spoken in the

Callejón de Huaylas The Santa Valley ( Quechua ''Sancta'') is an inter-andean valley in the Ancash Region in the north-central highlands of Peru. Due to its location between two mountain ranges, it is known as Callejón de Huaylas, the Alley of Huaylas, whereas "Huay ...

and in the western slope of the

Cordillera Negra The Cordillera Negra ( Spanish for "black range"), Yana Walla in qechua is part of the ''Cordillera Occidental'', one of three mountain ranges in the Andes of west central Peru. It is almost entirely located within the Ancash Region. The range ex ...

. The main peculiarities of this variety are phonetic. In Quechua Ancash-Huailas a phenomenon of

monophthong A monophthong ( ; , ) is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation. The monophthongs can be contrasted with diphthongs, w ...

ation of syllables with semiconsonants in

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is present: "aw" is often pronounced as :elongated, likewise "ay" as : For example, 'awmi' is pronounced : mi '' chawpi '' (center) ͡ʃo: piand '' aywan '' (walks) as : wan In grammatical terms, Huaylas lacks the suffix '' -ski ''.

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