Cuzco Quechua ( qu, Qusqu qhichwa simi) is a dialect of
Southern Quechua
Southern Quechua ( qu, Urin qichwa, es, 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 mil ...
spoken in
Cuzco
Cusco, often spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu ()), is a city in Southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region and of the Cusco Province. The city is the seventh most populous in Peru; ...
and the
Cuzco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...
of
Peru
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.
It is the Quechua variety used by the
Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua
The High Academy of the Quechua Language (Spanish: ''Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua''; Quechua: ''Qhichwa Simi Hamut'ana Kuraq Suntur'') or AMLQ is a Peruvian organization dedicated to the research, promotion, and dissemination of the Quech ...
in Cuzco, which also prefers the Spanish-based five-vowel alphabet. On the other hand, the official
alphabet
An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllab ...
used by the ministry of education has only three vowels.
Phonology
There is debate about whether Cuzco Quechua has five /a, e, i, o, u/ or three vowels: /a, i, u/.
Grammar
Pronouns
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
See also
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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-v ...
References
External links
Simi Taqe Qheswa - Español - Qheswa (Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur), Qosqo, Peru, 2006(pdf 3,8 MB). Dictionary of the
AMLQ: Cusco-Quechua - Spanish, Spanish - Cusco-Quechua.
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Languages of Peru
Southern Quechua
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