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Southern Quechua, or simply Quechua, is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects
within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers. It is also the most widely spoken indigenous language
in the entire New World. The term 'Southern Quechua' refers to the forms of Quechua spoken in regions of the Andes south of
a line roughly east-west between the cities of Huancayo and Huancavelica in central Peru. It includes the Quechua varieties
spoken in the regions of Ayacucho, Cuzco and Puno in Peru, in much of Bolivia and parts of north-west Argentina. The most
widely spoken varieties are South Bolivian, Cuzco, Ayacucho, and Puno (Collao). In the traditional classification of the Quechua
language family by Alfredo Torero, Southern Quechua is equivalent to Torero's 'Quechua IIc' (or just 'QIIc'). It thus stands
in contrast to its many sister varieties within the wider Quechua family that are spoken in areas north of the Huancayo-Huancavelica
line: Central Quechua (Torero's QI) spoken from Huancayo northwards to Ancash; North Peruvian Quechua around Cajamarca and
Inkawasi (Torero's IIa, but whose classification is problematic); and Ecuador Quechua (locally known as 'Quichua', part of
Torero's Quechua IIb). |
Names (more)[en] Classical Quechua |
Language type : Ancient
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : qwcLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/qwchttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:qwc More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: qwcFreebase ISO 639-3 : qwc GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |