Yauyos–Chincha Quechua

Quechua dialect cluster

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Huangáscar–Topará
Native toPerú
Native speakers
13,000 (2000–2003)[1]
Language family
Quechua
  • Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
qux – Yauyos Quechua
qxc – Chincha Quechua
Glottologyauy1235  Yauyos
chin1483  Chincha
ELP
  • Yauyos Quechua
  • Southern Yauyos Quechua
  • Northern Yauyos Quechua
  • Laraos Quechua

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a language cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Yauyos and Chincha districts of Peru. 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.[2]

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.[3]

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Stop p ⟨p⟩

(b) ⟨b⟩

t ⟨t⟩

(d) ⟨d⟩

ʈ ⟨tr⟩ c ⟨ch⟩ k ⟨k⟩

(g) ⟨g⟩

q ⟨q⟩
Fricative (f) ⟨f⟩

(v) ⟨v⟩

s ⟨s⟩ ʃ ⟨sh⟩ h ⟨h⟩
Nasal m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩ ɲ ⟨ñ⟩
Approximant β ⟨w⟩ j ⟨y⟩
Lateral l ⟨l⟩ ʎ ⟨ll⟩
Flap ɾ ⟨r⟩
Trill (r) ⟨rr⟩

Sounds in parentheses are only in loanwords from Spanish.

Yauyos Quechua and neighboring varieties

References

  1. ^ Yauyos Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Chincha Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Adelaar, 2004. The Languages of the Andes.
  3. ^ Shimelman, Aviva (10 March 2017). A Grammar Of Yauyos Quechua. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355.

Bibliography

  • Shimelman, Aviva (2017). A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua. Studies in Diversity Linguistics 9. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355. ISBN 978-3-946234-21-0.
  • Bertet, Denis (2013). Éléments de description du parler quechua d'Hongos (Yauyos, Lima, Pérou) : morphologie nominale et verbale [with texts and a lexicon] (MA thesis).

Online Dictionaries

  • Yauyos–English (Aviva Shimelman)
  • Yauyos–Castellano (Aviva Shimelman)

External links

Yauyos Quechua test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
  • Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation
  • Taylor, Gerald (1990). "Textes quechua de Laraos (Yauyos)". Journal de la société des américanistes. 76 (1): 121–154. doi:10.3406/jsa.1990.1361.
  • Texts in Yauyos Quechua at IMDI / ISLE Metadata Initiative, collected by Aviva Shimelman (registration necessary)
  • Yauyos Quechua Collection of Aviva Shimelman on AILLA (registration necessary)
  • Yauyos Quechua Linguistic Materials, SCL 2018–15, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2610XHN
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