Ancash Quechua, or Huaylay (Waylay), is a
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
variety spoken in the
Peruvian
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian ...
department of Ancash
Ancash ( qu, Anqash; es, Áncash ) is a department and region in northern Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is ...
by approximately 1,000,000 people. Like
Wanka Quechua, it belongs to
Quechua I (according to
Alfredo Torero).
Classification
The Ancash Quechua varieties belong to the Quechua I branch of the
homonymous language family, belonging to a dialectal continuum extended in the central Peruvian Sierra from Ancash in the north to the provinces of
Castrovirreyna and
Yauyos in the south.
Some varieties bordering this continuum partially share morphological characteristics that distinguish the Ancash group from the other central Quechua, so it is difficult to establish a discrete limit. Among these nearby varieties are the Quechua of
Bolognesi,
Ocros and
Cajatambo and that of the
Alto Marañón region in the
department of Huánuco.
See also
*
Quechuan and Aymaran spelling shift
In recent years, Peru has revised the official spelling for place-names originating from Aymara and the Quechuan languages. A standardized alphabet for Quechua was adopted by the Peruvian government in 1975; a revision in 1985 moved to a three- ...
References
External links
*(In Anchash Quechua
KAYMI KAN LLAPAN MUNDUCHAW IMANAW KAQ RUNAKUNAPAPIS DIRICHUNKUNA(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Crossing aspectual frontiersSouth Conchucos Quechua.
*
Lustig, Wolf (1996)
Glossary Quechua Ancashino
Languages of Peru
Quechuan languages
Indigenous languages of the Andes
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