Ayacucho Quechua language

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Name (Latin)
Ayacucho Quechua language
Other forms of name
Ayucucho language
Chanca language
Chanka language
See Also From tracing topical name
Quechua language
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Peru
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q35145
Library of congress: sh2015000222
Sources of Information
  • Work cat: Manual para el empleo del quechua chanka en la administración de justicia, 2014:page 9 (chanka language)
  • Ethnologue, 2014:(Quechua, Ayacucho, a language of Peru; quy. UF Chanka. Loc: Southwest, Ayacucho and Huancavelica regions; areas of Apurimac, Junin, Arequipa, Cusco, Ica, and Lima regions. Class: ...Southern Peruvian Quechua. Dialects: Andahuaylas, Huancavelica)
  • Linguasphere, 1999(84-FAA-ha; ayucucho+apurimac; UF chanka; Andes mtns; Peru (Huancavelica, Ayucucho, Apurimac); part of Quechua-S.)
  • Wikipedia, viewed January 29, 2015(Ayacucho Quechua; Ayacucho also called Chanca or Chanka; dialect of the Southern Quechua language, spoken in the Ayacucho region of Peru and by immigrants from Ayacucho in Lima; roughly a million speakers making it the largest variety of Quechua after Cusco Quechua)