Ayacucho Quechua language
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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)
Wikipedia description:
Ayacucho (also called Chanca or Chanka after the local Chanka ethnicity that dominated the area before the Inca conquest) is a variety of Southern Quechua spoken in the Ayacucho Region, Peru, as well as by immigrants from Ayacucho in Lima. With roughly a million speakers, it is the largest variety of Southern Quechua after Cusco Quechua. The literary standard of Southern Quechua is based on these two closely related Quechua varieties.
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