Inkawasi-Kañaris is a variety of
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
spoken in the districts of
Incahuasi
Incahuasi (; possibly from Quechua: ''inka'' Inca, ''wasi'' house) is a volcanic mountain in the Andes of South America. It lies on the border of the Catamarca Province of Argentina and the Atacama Region of Chile. Incahuasi has a summit eleva ...
and
Cañaris,
Ferreñafe
Ferreñafe (Mochica language, mochica: ''firruñap'')is a town in Northern Peru, capital of the province Ferreñafe Province, Ferreñafe in the region Lambayeque Region, Lambayeque.
Overview
Ferreñafe was founded on December 13, 1550, by captai ...
in the
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
vian region of
Lambayeque.
Inkawasi-Kañaris Quechua belongs to
Quechua II
Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" l ...
, subgroup
Cajamarca–Cañaris (Quechua II a, Yunkay) and is closest to
Cajamarca Quechua
Cajamarca Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken in the districts of Chetilla, Baños del Inca and Cajamarca ( Porcón) in the Peruvian province of Cajamarca, along the northwest coast of Peru.
It was never spoken throughout the Cajamarca Dep ...
, with which it has 94% lexical similarity.
References
Bibliography
*Ronel Groenewald et al. (2002): Shumaq liyinawan yaĉakushun - Aprendamos con los cuentos bonitos
External links
La semántica de quechua de InkawasiGuía de la langua quechua para histanohablantes - Quechua de Lambayeque(
SIL, 2007).
*
Proyecto diccionario linwaras – castellano'. Inkawasi Kañaris. Plataforma para el estudio, la promoción y la difusión de la cultura de los kiĉwahablantes de Lambayeque.
Languages of Peru
Quechuan languages
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