Cajamarca Quechua

Cajamarca Quechua
Kashamarka Runashimi
Native to Perú
Native speakers
30,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 qvc
Glottolog caja1238[2]

Cajamarca Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken in the districts of Chetilla, Baños del Inca and Cajamarca (Porcón) in the Peruvian province of Cajamarca.

It was never spoken throughout the region, where other indigenous languages were spoken as well, e.g. Culle.

Cajamarca Quechua is severely endangered, as hardly any children are now learning it.

Cajamarca Quechua belongs to Quechua II, subgroup Cajamarca–Cañaris (Quechua II a, Yunkay) and is closest to Lambayeque Quechua, with which it has 94% lexical similarity.[1] Félix Quesada published the first grammar and dictionary in 1976.

References

  1. 1 2 Cajamarca Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cajamarca Quechua". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

External links

Cajamarca Quechua test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Stories in Cajamarca Quechua

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