Inga Kichwa is a dialect of
Kichwa
Kichwa (, , also Spanish ) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (''Inga''), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers.
The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo ...
spoken in the
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
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Putumayo region by the
Inga people
The Inga people are an indigenous ethnic group from the Southwest region of Colombia with a historical relation to the Incas.
They speak a dialect of Quechua known as Inga Kichwa. Almost all Inga people are bilingual in Inga and Spanish, which h ...
. There are two dialects: Highland Inga, spoken in the
Sibundoy
Sibundoy (Camsá: Tabanok "village") is a town and municipality in the Putumayo Department of the Republic of Colombia.
The town existed well before the Spanish came in 1534. The Inca, under Huayna Cápac, conquered the local people in 1492 and ...
valley; and Jungle Inga, spoken on the
Putumayo and
Japurá Rivers. ''Ethnologue'' 16 reports Highland Inga is partially intelligible with Imbabura
Kichwa
Kichwa (, , also Spanish ) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (''Inga''), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers.
The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo ...
.
References
External links
Roger Parks: The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua) (PDF)
Comité de Educación Inga de la Organización "Musu Runakuna", ''Diccionario Inga'' (''edición interine en el nuevo alfabeto''). Borrador de septiembre 1997 (PDF)
Languages of Colombia
Quechuan languages
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