Yauyos–Chincha Quechua

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Huangáscar–Topará
Native to	Peru
Region	Chincha Province, Yauyos province
Native speakers	(13,000 cited 2000–2003)
Language family	Quechua Yauyos–Chincha Quechua;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; qux – Yauyos Quechua; qxc – Chincha Quechua
Glottolog	yauy1235 Yauyos; chin1483 Chincha
ELP	Yauyos Quechua
	Yauyos Quechua and neighboring varieties

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.^[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⟩
Stop	voiced	(b) ⟨b⟩		(d) ⟨d⟩				(g) ⟨g⟩
Fricative	voiceless		(f) ⟨f⟩	s ⟨s⟩	ʃ ⟨sh⟩					h ⟨h⟩
Fricative	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.

References

^ Yauyos Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Chincha Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Adelaar, 2004. The Languages of the Andes.
^ Shimelman, Aviva (10 March 2017). A Grammar Of Yauyos Quechua. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355.

Bibliography

Shimelman, Aviva (2017). A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua. Studies in Diversity Linguistics 9. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355. ISBN 978-3-946234-21-0.
Bertet, Denis (2013). Éléments de description du parler quechua d'Hongos (Yauyos, Lima, Pérou) : morphologie nominale et verbale [with texts and a lexicon] (MA thesis).

Online Dictionaries

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

External links

Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation
Taylor, Gerald (1990). "Textes quechua de Laraos (Yauyos)". Journal de la société des américanistes. 76 (1): 121–154. doi:10.3406/jsa.1990.1361.
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)
Huamán, Hipólita Santos; Rivera, Oscar Vicente; Bertet, Denis (2018), Yauyos Quechua Linguistic Materials, doi:10.7297/X2610XHN, retrieved 11 January 2025

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[e18-1] Yauyos Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Chincha Quechua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Adelaar, 2004. The Languages of the Andes.

[3] Shimelman, Aviva (10 March 2017). A Grammar Of Yauyos Quechua. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355.

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