Chachapoyas or Amazonas Quechua is a variety of
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
spoken in the provinces of
Chachapoyas and
Luya in the
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
vian region of
Amazonas.
Chachapoyas Quechua is endangered, as hardly any children are now learning it.
Conila is said to be the last village where children are still able to speak it.
Chachapoyas Quechua belongs to
Quechua II
Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" l ...
, subgroup II-B (
Lowland Peruvian Quechua).
Bibliography
* Gerald Taylor, 2006. ''Diccionario Quechua Chachapoyas-Lamas (– Castellano)''
References
Languages of Peru
Quechuan languages
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