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Quechua variety of Peru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cajamarca Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken in the districts of Chetilla, Baños del Inca and Cajamarca (Porcón) in the Peruvian province of Cajamarca, along the northwest coast of Peru.
Cajamarca Quechua | |
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Kashamarka Runashimi | |
Native to | Perú |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2000)[1] |
Quechua
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | qvc |
Glottolog | caja1238 |
ELP | Cajamarca Quechua |
It was never spoken throughout the Cajamarca Department, where other indigenous languages like Kulyi, Jivaroan, or Mochica were spoken .
Cajamarca Quechua is severely endangered, as hardly any children are now learning it.
Cajamarca Quechua belongs to Quechua II, subgroup Cajamarca–Cañaris (Quechua II a, Yunkay) and is closest to Lambayeque Quechua, with which it has 94% lexical similarity.[1] Félix Quesada published the first grammar and dictionary in 1976.[2]
There are three vowels: /a, i, u/[3]
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