Yauyos–Chincha Quechua

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Huangáscar–Topará
Native to	Perú
Native speakers	13,000 (2000–2003)[1]
Language family	Quechua Central (Quechua I) Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: qux – Yauyos Quechua qxc – Chincha Quechua
Glottolog	yauy1235  (Yauyos)[2] chin1483  (Chincha)[3]

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a dialect 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.^[4]

Bibliography

• Aviva Shimelman 2015. (Forthcoming:) A grammar of Yauyos Quechua (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 9). Berlin: Language Science Press (draft, 17 August 2014).

Online Dictionaries

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

References

1. Yauyos Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Chincha Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yauyos". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chincha". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Adelaar, 2004. The Languages of the Andes.

External links

• Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation
• Gerald Taylor (1990): Textes quechua de Laraos (Yauyos). Journal de la Société des Américanistes, Vol. 76, No. 76, pp. 121–154.
• Texts in Yauyos Quechua at IMDI / ISLE Metadata Initiative, collected by Aviva Shimelman (registration necessary)