Yauyos–Chincha Quechua

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a language cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Yauyos and Chincha districts of Peru. There are numerous dialects: in Yauyos, San Pedro de Huacarpana, Apurí, Madean-Viñac (Madeán), Azángaro-Huangáscar-Chocos (Huangáscar), Cacra-Hongos, Tomás-Alis (Alis), Huancaya-Vitis, Laraos, with similar diversity in Chincha.

Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Huangáscar–Topará
Native to	Perú
Native speakers	13,000 (2000–2003)
Language family	Quechua Yauyos–Chincha Quechua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: qux – Yauyos Quechua qxc – Chincha Quechua
Glottolog	yauy1235  Yauyos chin1483  Chincha
ELP	Yauyos Quechua

The Tana-Lincha (Lincha) dialect included by Ethnologue 16, however, is part of Cajamarca-Lambayeque Quechua.

Phonology

Yauyos Quechua omits several distinctions present in other Quechuan languages. The orthography used below is the one used in A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p ⟨p⟩ (b) ⟨b⟩		t ⟨t⟩ (d) ⟨d⟩		ʈ ⟨tr⟩	c ⟨ch⟩	k ⟨k⟩ (g) ⟨g⟩	q ⟨q⟩
Fricative		(f) ⟨f⟩ (v) ⟨v⟩	s ⟨s⟩	ʃ ⟨sh⟩					h ⟨h⟩
Nasal	m ⟨m⟩		n ⟨n⟩			ɲ ⟨ñ⟩
Approximant	β ⟨w⟩					j ⟨y⟩
Lateral			l ⟨l⟩			ʎ ⟨ll⟩
Flap			ɾ ⟨r⟩
Trill			(r) ⟨rr⟩

Sounds in parentheses are only in loanwords from Spanish.

Yauyos Quechua and neighboring varieties

Bibliography

• Shimelman, Aviva (2017). A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua. Studies in Diversity Linguistics 9. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.376355. ISBN 978-3-946234-21-0.
• Bertet, Denis (2013). Éléments de description du parler quechua d'Hongos (Yauyos, Lima, Pérou) : morphologie nominale et verbale [with texts and a lexicon] (MA thesis).

Online Dictionaries

• Yauyos–English (Aviva Shimelman)
• Yauyos–Castellano (Aviva Shimelman)

External links

• Gerald Taylor: Two stories in Quechua of Laraos (Yauyos) with Spanish translation
• Taylor, Gerald (1990). "Textes quechua de Laraos (Yauyos)". Journal de la société des américanistes. 76 (1): 121–154. doi:10.3406/jsa.1990.1361.
• Texts in Yauyos Quechua at IMDI / ISLE Metadata Initiative, collected by Aviva Shimelman (registration necessary)
• Yauyos Quechua Collection of Aviva Shimelman on AILLA (registration necessary)
• Yauyos Quechua Linguistic Materials, SCL 2018–15, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2610XHN