Chachapoyas Quechua
Chachapoyas or Amazonas Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken in the provinces of Chachapoyas and Luya in the Peruvian region of Amazonas.
Chachapoyas Quechua | |
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Amazonas Quechua | |
Native to | Perú |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2003)[1] |
Quechua
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | quk |
Glottolog | chac1250 [2] |
Chachapoyas Quechua is critically endangered, as hardly any children are now learning it. Conila is said to be the last village where children are still able to speak it.
Chachapoyas Quechua belongs to Quechua II, subgroup II-B (Lowland Peruvian Quechua).
Bibliography
- Gerald Taylor, 2006. Diccionario Quechua Chachapoyas-Lamas (– Castellano)
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References
- Chachapoyas Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chachapoyas Quechua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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