Inga Kichwa is a dialect of

Kichwa Kichwa (, , also Spanish ) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia (''Inga''), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers. The most widely spoken dialects are Chimbora ...

spoken in the Colombian Putumayo region by the

Inga people The Inga people are an indigenous ethnic group from the Southwest region of Colombia with a historical relation to the Incas. They speak a dialect of Quechua known as Inga Kichwa. Almost all Inga people are bilingual Multilingualism ...

. There are two dialects: Highland Inga, spoken in the

Sibundoy Sibundoy (Camsá: Tabanok "village") is a town and municipality in the Putumayo Department of the Republic of Colombia. The town existed well before the Spanish came in 1534. The Inca, under Huayna Cápac, conquered the local people in 1492 an ...

valley; and Jungle Inga, spoken on the Putumayo and

Japurá River The Japurá River or Caquetá River is a river about long in the Amazon basin. It rises in Colombia and flows eastward through Brazil to join the Amazon River. Course The river rises as the Caquetá River in the Andes in southwest Colombia. ...

s. ''Ethnologue'' 16 reports Highland Inga is partially intelligible with Imbabura

References

External links

Roger Parks: The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua) (PDF)

Comité de Educación Inga de la Organización "Musu Runakuna", ''Diccionario Inga'' (''edición interine en el nuevo alfabeto''). Borrador de septiembre 1997 (PDF)
Languages of Colombia Quechuan languages {{na-lang-stub