Yaru Quechua is a

dialect cluster A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...

, spoken in the Peruvian provinces of Pasco and

Daniel Alcides Carrión Daniel Alcides Carrión García (August 12, 1857 – October 5, 1885) was a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named. Fatal experiment Carrión described the disease in the course of what proved to be a fatal experiment u ...

and neighboring areas in northern Junín and

Lima department Lima department was a department of Peru. It was formed by the territories of present-day Lima Region, Callao Region and Ica Region, and Casma Province, Huarmey Province and Santa Province The Santa Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancas ...

. The branch of Yaru which has been best described is Tarma Quechua, by Willem F. H. Adelaar in his 1977 ''Tarma Quechua: Grammar, texts, dictionary''. Tarma Quechua is spoken in the districts of Tarma, Huaricolca, Acobamba, La Unión Leticia, Palca, Palcamayo, Tapo, Huasahuasi and San Pedro de Cajas in Junín region, Peru. (See North Junín Quechua.)

References

Bibliography

* Adelaar, Willem. ''The Languages of the Andes''. With the collaboration of P.C. Muysken. Cambridge language survey. Cambridge University Press, 2007, Languages of Peru Quechuan languages {{IndigenousAmerican-lang-stub