Yauyos–Chincha 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.

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.

Consonants

Sounds in parentheses are only found in loanwords from Spanish.

References

Bibliography

Online Dictionaries

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

External links

• Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation
• 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)