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Kichwa (Kichwa shimi, Runashimi, also Spanish Quichua) is a Quechuan language which includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador
and Colombia, as well as extensions into Peru, and is spoken by 2.5 million people. The most widely spoken dialects are Chimborazo
and Imbabura Highland Kichwa, with one to two million and half a million to one million speakers, respectively. Cañar Highland
Quecha has 100,000–200,000 speakers; the others in the range of ten to twenty thousand. Kichwa belongs to the Northern Quechua
group of Quechua II. Kichwa syntax has undergone some grammatical simplification compared to Southern Quechua, perhaps due
to partial creolization with the pre-Inca languages of Ecuador. A standardized language with a unified orthography (Kichwa
Unificado, Shukyachiska Kichwa) has been developed. It is similar to Chimborazo, less some of the phonological peculiarities
of that dialect. The earliest grammatical description of Kichwa was written in the 17th century by the Jesuit priest Hernando
de Alcocer. |
Names (more)[en] Loja Highland Quichua |
Language type : Living
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