Inga Kichwa

Inga Kichwa is a dialect of Kichwa spoken in the Colombian Putumayo region by the Inga people. There are two dialects: Highland Inga, spoken in the Sibundoy valley; and Jungle Inga, spoken on the Putumayo and Japurá Rivers.

Inga Kichwa
Ingano
Native to	Colombia
Region	Putumayo Department
Ethnicity	Inga people
Native speakers	11,200[1]
Language family	Quechua Quechua II Northern Kichwa Inga Kichwa
Dialects	Highland Jungle
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: inb – Highland Inga inj – Jungle Inga
Glottolog	inga1252
ELP	Inga
Map of Inga Kichwa
Inga Kichwa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]

References

1. "🇨🇴 Idioma de Colombia ▷ Lenguas oficiales de los colombianos".
2. Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexandre. "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

External links

• Roger Parks: The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua) (PDF) Archived 2020-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Comité de Educación Inga de la Organización "Musu Runakuna", Diccionario Inga (edición interine en el nuevo alfabeto). Borrador de septiembre 1997 (PDF) Archived 2019-06-18 at the Wayback Machine