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Southern Quechua | |
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Quechua II-C | |
Qhichwa | |
Pronunciation | Quechua pronunciation: [qʰɛtʃwa] |
Native to | Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina |
Region | Countries of the Andean highlands of South America, minorities in neighboring countries and some parts of Asia and Europe |
Ethnicity | In the Andes: Quechua · Diaguita · Qulla In Santiago: Lule · Vilela · Tonocotés · Spaniards |
Native speakers | (5 million cited 1987–2014)[1] |
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Latin script (Quechua alphabet) | |
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List of countries where Southern Quechua is a minority native language |
Regulated by | none |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:qwc – Classical Quechuaquy – Ayacucho Quechuaqxu – Arequipa-La Unión Quechuaquz – Cusco Quechuaqve – Eastern Apurímac Quechuaqxp – Puno Quechua (Collao)qul – North Bolivian Quechua (Apolo)quh – South Bolivian Quechuaqus – Santiagueño Quechua |
Glottolog | quec1389 |
ELP | Catamarca and La Rioja Quechua (extinct variety in Argentina) |
Linguasphere | 84-FAA-h |
![]() Minority of Southern Quechua speakers
Majority of Southern Quechua speakers |
People | Qulla |
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Language | Qichwa |
Country | Qullaw |
Southern Quechua (Quechua: Urin qichwa, Spanish: quechua sureño), or simply Quechua (Qichwa or Qhichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers.[citation needed] Besides Guaraní it is the only indigenous language of America with more than 5 million speakers. The term Southern Quechua refers to the Quechuan varieties spoken in regions of the Andes south of a line roughly east–west between the cities of Huancayo and Huancavelica in central Peru. It includes the Quechua varieties spoken in the regions of Ayacucho, Cusco and Puno in Peru, in much of Bolivia and parts of north-west Argentina. The most widely spoken varieties are Cusco, Ayacucho, Puno (Collao), and South Bolivian.
In the traditional classification of the Quechua language family by Alfredo Torero, Southern Quechua is equivalent to Torero's 'Quechua IIc' (or just 'QIIc'). It thus stands in contrast to its many sister varieties within the wider Quechuan family that are spoken in areas north of the Huancayo–Huancavelica line: Central Quechua (Torero's QI) spoken from Huancayo northwards to the Ancash Region; North Peruvian Quechua around Cajamarca and Incahuasi (Torero's IIa); and Kichwa (part of Torero's Quechua IIb).
Declárase de interés oficial la preservación, difusión, estímulo, estudio y práctica de la lengua Quíchua en todo el territorio de la provincia [..]