Yauyos Quechua
Quechua dialect cluster
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Yauyos Quechua is a moribund 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.
NativetoPeru
RegionChincha Province, Yauyos province
Native speakers
600 (2017 census)[1]Quechua
- Yauyos Quechua
| Yauyos Quechua | |
|---|---|
| Huangáscar–Topará | |
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Chincha Province, Yauyos province |
Native speakers | 600 (2017 census)[1] |
Quechua
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qux |
| Glottolog | yauy1235 Yauyos |
| ELP | Yauyos Quechua |
 Yauyos Quechua and neighboring varieties | |
 Quechua of Yauyos is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
The Tana-Lincha (Lincha) dialect included by Ethnologue 25, 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 | voiceless | p ⟨p⟩ | t ⟨t⟩ | ʈ ⟨tr⟩ | c ⟨ch⟩ | k ⟨k⟩ | q ⟨q⟩ | |||
| voiced | (b) ⟨b⟩ | (d) ⟨d⟩ | (g) ⟨g⟩ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) ⟨f⟩ | s ⟨s⟩ | ʃ ⟨sh⟩ | h ⟨h⟩ | |||||
| voiced | (v) ⟨v⟩ | |||||||||
| 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 found in loanwords from Spanish.
