Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a
language cluster
A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardized varieties, such as those used in developing countries or iso ...
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
Yauyos
Yauyos is a town in Central Peru, capital of the province Yauyos in the region Lima
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is loca ...
and
Chincha districts of
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 ...
. There are numerous dialects: in Yauyos, ''San Pedro de Huacarpana, Apurí, Madean-Viñac (Madeán), Azángaro-Huangáscar-Chocos (Huangáscar), Cacra-Hongos, Tomás-Alis (Alis), Huancaya-Vitis, Laraos,'' with similar diversity in Chincha.
The Tana-Lincha (Lincha) dialect included by ''Ethnologue'' 16, however, is part of
Cajamarca-Lambayeque Quechua.
Phonology
Yauyos Quechua omits several distinctions present in other Quechuan languages. The orthography used below is the one used in ''A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua''.
Consonants
Sounds in parentheses are only found in loanwords from
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
.
References
Bibliography
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Online Dictionaries
Yauyos–English(Aviva Shimelman)
Yauyos–Castellano(Aviva Shimelman)
External links
*Gerald Taylor
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ttp://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/?openpath=MPI1122721%23 Texts in Yauyos Quechua at IMDI / ISLE Metadata Initiative collected by Aviva Shimelman (registration necessary)
Yauyos Quechua Collection of Aviva Shimelmanon AILLA (registration necessary)
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Languages of Peru
Quechuan languages
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