Ancash Quechua

Ancash Quechua
Huaylay
Native to Perú
Native speakers
920,000 (1994–2002)[1]
Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
qwa  Corongo
qwh  Huaylas
qxn  Norte de Conchucos
qws  Sihuas
qxo  Sur de Conchucos
qvh  Huamalíes y Norte de Dos de Mayo
Glottolog huay1239[2]

Ancash Quechua, or Huaylay, is a Quechua variety with a number of dialects, spoken in the department of Ancash by approximately 1,000,000 people. Like Wanka Quechua, it belongs to Quechua I (according to Alfredo Torero).

References

  1. Corongo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Huaylas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Norte de Conchucos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sihuas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sur de Conchucos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Huamalíes y Norte de Dos de Mayo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Huaylay". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

Ancash Quechua test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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